After the bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941), the U.S. government forced Japanese and Japanese American citizens to live in “War Relocation Camps.” Yuriko Kikuchi (b. 1920), who would become a dancer with Martha Graham, a star on Broadway, and a choreographer, lived in a relocation camp. After her release, she noted that her choreography expressed “the emotional struggles of a bewildered woman—one among millions unjustly uprooted—to regain her place in society” and ended with “her rediscovery of human freedom and dignity.”