Dancing Through Prison Walls: Nourishing Resilient Community
                   A campaign supporting the latticework of who we are as a porous abolitionist community of currently and formerly incarcerated, and "free world", dancers, performers, storytellers, community builders, artists, activists, educators. Our work is ever-evolving. Our work is seriously joyous and growth-filled. Our work demands great depth of care and visioning.

This campaign will support our work in three ways:

1.) Establish a bedrock for our "Freedom Fund", which exists to help support members of our community coming out of prison. Whatever form that may take, the funds are there for our system impacted brothers, sisters, and siblings to decide what they need and when they need it.

2.) Serve as seed money for our new project, Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls - Louisiana, South Dakota, Puerto Rico, and Palestine. This expanded version of our work begun in 2020 at the height of the covid pandemic, reimagines writing and embodying dances beyond state and national borders. An expansive reckoning with mass incarceration through imagined dances sent out to the world.

3.) Creation of  "Working with Dancing Through Prison Walls - A Handbook of Guidelines for Community Engagement and Care"
                   We have spent the past seven years dancing in the gym of the Norco prison, from which we have gone out to perform, create, and be in conversation with communities from Kampala, Uganda to Angola, Louisiana, and from Austin, Texas to Auburn, New York.. The embrace has been astonishing, a remarkably deep interest in new ways of imagining a world that centers care not caging. There have also been deeply biased and policed responses to our work and our community. We have been honored to be guided by a remarkable community of thinkers, artists, educators and theorists. We look forward to creating A Handbook of Guidelines for Community Engagement and Care, and the ways this document will serve as a framing and invitation for people we work with to expand as individuals and as a community, to confront biases, to learn to redefine incarceration and those caged within it,  to grow together in creating the just and welcoming world we are dancing toward.