Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic Tuesday, September 1­–Friday, September 4, 12–5pm You are invited to watch the process of choreography and dance through ICA LA’s windows along 7th St from September 1-4 between the hours of noon-5pm. Limited in-person on the sidewalk or in ICA LA’s parking lot; must keep social distances (6ft) and wear masks. RSVP requested. Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic is a week of embodying dances written inside the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) prison during the COVID-19 lockdowns of Spring 2020. Suchi Branfman (project director/lead choreographer) has invited these fellow choreographer/dancers to inhabit the written dances: Bernard Brown, Jay Carlon, Ernst Fenelon Jr., Irvin Gonzalez, Kenji Igus, Brianna Mims, and Tom Tsai. In 2016, choreographer/dancer/educator Suchi Branfman, began a five-year choreographic residency inside the prison gym at the CRC prison, a medium security men’s state prison in Norco, CA. Weekly gatherings to dance and create with the incarcerated men were abruptly halted in March 2020. The California state prison system shut down all programming and visitation due to COVID-19. The program was rapidly revised and the dancers began sending out imagined written choreographies from their prison bunks to the world to imagine Undanced Dances through Prison Walls During a Pandemic. The Field Workshop has offered space to explore the embodiment of powerfully written choreographic work. Branfman has invited other choreographers who have been part of part of her Dancing Through Prison Walls program, as well as formerly incarcerated colleagues of the authors, to spend a week to read, internalize, and collaborate to bring the written dances to life. ------------------------------------ Conversation with the Choreographer and Dancers Saturday, September 5, 4pm RSVP for Zoom: https://www.theicala.org/en/events/295-undanced-dances-through-prison-walls-during-a-pandemic-br-online-conversation Join the dancers of Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic for an online conversation about the process of writing, interpretation, choreography, and dance for this uniquely collaborative project with the incarcerated community. With Suchi Branfman, Bernard Brown, Jay Carlon, Ernst Fenelon Jr., Irvin Gonzalez, Kenji Igus, Brianna Mims, and Tom Tsai.