How we’re making our prison programming even better.

Dance To Be Free is offering a revised curriculum designed to support the women in prison even more deeply. The first workshop (Phase 1) is open to all, regardless of skill level or interest in becoming a teacher, and Phases 2 & 3 are offered to women who want to become a Dance To Be Free Instructor. This eliminates any pressure or potential fear of taking a “Teacher Training” from the first workshop. And it allows DTBF to take an even deeper dive into the instructor training with a smaller group of committed women. So our original three-day training has evolved into three, separate 2-day trainings.

Covid restrictions the past two years have limited our ability to get inside and dance with the women as much as we did pre-pandemic and we’re thrilled to announce that we are converting the Phase One training into a recorded asset that can be shared on DVDs with the women in prison when we aren’t able to be there and to use as a teaching tool for our existing in-person trainings. One of our amazing supporters has volunteered to take on this project for us!

So stay tuned for some sneak peeks into what a prison training looks like! Filming is scheduled for April inside the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW).

We have a Phase One Training scheduled in the La Vista Correctional Center (LVCF) in March.

We’ve been approved for three trainings in June, July and August in a brand new facility—Dakota Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Center—in New England, ND. Woohoo!

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get back into prison in Mississippi and we’re getting warmer! We are optimistic DTBF will be inside by fall of 2022.

Thank you for partnering with us so we can keep changing lives.

The DTBF Team and our incarcerated sisters