Chrysalis Sessions: Dance Jam with Dancing Through Prison Walls

gathering grief movement

a dance session hosted by choreographer Suchi Branfman and a crew of formerly incarcerated and “free world folks” as part of our 2022 Chrysalis Sessions hosted at University of California, Los Angeles.


The first in-person iteration of Dancing Through Prison Walls’ weekly dance jam co-hosted by choreographer Suchi Branfman and a crew of formerly incarcerated and “free world” folks who have been dancing together virtually since March 2020. Coffee and cookies provided by our friends Skid Row Coffee.



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  1. people standing in a pink exhibition space gesture in different ways with their bodies and arms. one person, on the left side, raises their fist and toroso toward the cieling, another person begins to kneal and bends their elbows, while another stretches their limbs toward their sides.
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