# Event Details - **Event Name**: Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 05 Jul, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Sat, 05 Jul, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a fun night of dancing and music to celebrate Dancing Through Pr*son Wall's 2-month residency at Recess!About this EventThis summer, Recess is proud to host FREEDOM TIME: undanced dances through Pr*son walls, a new Session project by the California-based community. The result of years-long collaboration with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists across the U.S. and beyond, FREEDOM TIME brings forward a living archive of written dances created in confinement—gestures of memory, imagination, resistance, and love that defy the logic of cages.Join us for the Opening Reception! We will share the first draft of Detainee written choreography by Motasem Abu Hasan and sent to us from Jenin, West Bank, Palestine. Choreographic collaborators: Mohamed Abo-Bargs (aka Barges), Tom Tsai, and Suchi Branfman. Danced by Mohamed Abo-Bargs (aka Barges) and Tom Tsai. Followed by a community conversation, Freedom Tea Ritual, and a Dance Jam open to all.The Recess Session space will be transformed into a dance studio, abolition library, rehearsal space, an ongoing archive of community input, a bulletin board of handwritten dances by incarcerated collaborators, and an archival altar of objects created by those inside. Visitors are invited to witness rehearsals, read incarcerated collaborators' choreography, drink Freedom Time tea created by Zindagi Apothecary, and join in collective study and dreaming. Regular public events—performances, community conversations, dance jams, printmaking workshops, letter-writing gatherings with Dignity Not Detention, and Pr*son abolition trainings with Critical Resistance — will unfold across the seven-week installation.__________________________________________________________________________About the ArtistsDancing Through Pr*son Walls is a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within embodied carceral landscapes and beyond, amplifying voices of incarcerated people, and addressing mass incarceration. Begun in 2016, the work embraces a porous community of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and “free world” dancers, choreographers, visual artists, and performers. The resulting hours of dance, dance making, performance, film creation, writing, and community conversations comprise a body of work that is at its essence a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and ways for surviving restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty through the act of dancing. Moving towards our North Star goal of decarceration and abolition, we dance through Pr*son walls. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/dancing-through-prson-walls-recess-opening-party/100001411177252149 - **Event Categories**: Entertainment, Workshops, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Recess - **lat**: 40.6973722 - **long**: -73.9679774 - **full address**: Recess, 46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d06164d628e71adca7331e0ef5b222552334dc4a19faded9447d65b106c5b1cc-rimg-w1200-h800-dc622b14-gmir.jpg?v=1750430805 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party being held? - **A:** Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party takes place on Sat, 05 Jul, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sat, 05 Jul, 2025 at 08:00 pm at Recess, 46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party? - **A:** Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party is organized by Recess. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Dancing Through Pr*son Walls @ Recess Opening Party is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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