Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet
Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, 'the Ellis Island of the west' One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where " f…