A collaborative performance project between a visual artist and a contemporary dance troupe, addressing the Japanese American Incarceration.


Collaboration by Wendy Maruyama, visual artist, The Tag Project/Executive Order 9066
and Jill Togawa, Artistic Director, Purple Moon Dance Project

Performance by Ruth Ichinaga, Sharon Sato and Jill Togawa

Videography by Xavier Vasquez

Music Score by Claudia Cuentas and Laura Inserra

Recorded Narration by Janice Mirikitani

Live Narration by Joyce Teague, Mich Himaka, and Pauline Guillermo Togawa

Production Support by Linda Canada and Jill Shiraki

Text by Jill Togawa and dancers;
with excerpts from Adios to Tears by Seiichi Higashide;
and “The Diamond Ring” by Ruth Okimoto, published in Making Home From War

Major funding for The Tag Project by California State Library - California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Japanese American Citizens League of San Diego, and San Diego State University Art Council

Tour funding for When Dreams Are Interrupted by The California Arts Council, The California Council for the Humanities- California Stories Fund, James Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and The California Endowment

Initial funding for When Dreams Are Interrupted by The California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities – California Stories Fund, California State Library – California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, East Bay Community Foundation – East Bay Fund for Artists, Grants for the Arts/SF Hotel Tax Fund (GFTA), Horizons Foundation, James Irvine Foundation and The California Endowment

Community support by Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego, San Diego Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, University Art Gallery at San Francisco State University, California Japanese American Community Leadership Council – Preserving California’s Japantowns.