San Jose Taiko Presents Swingposium

The San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience's On the road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions, and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these within their barbed-wire confines to maintain a sense of hope and community.
The "immersive" part of the show? Audience members and performers mingled and danced throughout the evening within a living-history portrayal of a teenage love story in the camp retold by actors playing prisoners. Music for the three sold-out weekend performances was provided by the taiko drummers and the Humboldt State University Jazz Orchestra. See the slideshow below for highlights of the event.
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Photographer Mark Larson
Videographer/Editor: Zachary Lathouris
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It can happen here. And is. We have visited Manzanar interment camp in the Owens Valley. When humans are afraid we do thoughtless things.