Caught Up: Stories from the Inside
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Imprisonment inhibits mobility. On any given day in the United States around 54,000 children will be in a detention facility, with nearly 1,000 children in Louisiana incarcerated every year. Young people are stagnated by the epidemic of incarceration.
In Caught Up: Stories from the Inside, Artivism Dance Theatre (ADT), in collaboration with New Orleans based community partners, Ubuntu Village NOLA and Voice of The Experienced, animate the experience of incarceration. Caught Up engages the directly affected in sharing their stories through the universal language of dance. Caught Up challenges public discourse by increasing understanding. Employing a collaborative choreographic process, Caught Up creates a pathway for communication between incarcerated children and their communities through dance. Caught Up translates the experience of incarceration and its impact on communities into a movement vocabulary to speak to those whom might otherwise never recognize the impact of prisons on our society. Caught Up culminates in performance and documentary process videos shared through a community event and social media campaign.
The brainchild of Sophia Rabinovitz, Artivism Dance Theatre (ADT) is a collective dedicated to bringing awareness of social issues to a broad spectrum of audiences through dance theatre. Artivism prioritizes communication of social message over esoteric performance, often using multimedia techniques in our work. We believe that art, and specifically movement, can communicate perspective and experience across gaps in culture, language, and tradition that might otherwise remain unbreachable.
Artivism Dance Theatre is comprised of dance professionals with years of experience in both performance and instruction. Trained in a great variety of techniques Artivism’s repertoire displays the expertise of company members ranging from movements of the African diaspora to ballet.
Caught Up was initially ideated in collaboration with Bruce Reilly, a formerly incarcerated person, and community organizer, currently serving as the Deputy Director of Voice of The Experienced. Bruce acts as an artistic consultant and community liaison for Caught Up. Additional collaborators include the company members of Artivism Dance Theatre, a documentary crew headed by producer Chana Rose Rabinovitz, stakeholders from various community organizations, and most importantly choreographic workshop artists. This project is Artivism’s first project focused on mass incarceration as a collective. However, individuals within the collective have years of experience working for criminal justice reform.
In Caught Up: Stories from the Inside, Artivism Dance Theatre (ADT), in collaboration with New Orleans based community partners, Ubuntu Village NOLA and Voice of The Experienced, animate the experience of incarceration. Caught Up engages the directly affected in sharing their stories through the universal language of dance. Caught Up challenges public discourse by increasing understanding. Employing a collaborative choreographic process, Caught Up creates a pathway for communication between incarcerated children and their communities through dance. Caught Up translates the experience of incarceration and its impact on communities into a movement vocabulary to speak to those whom might otherwise never recognize the impact of prisons on our society. Caught Up culminates in performance and documentary process videos shared through a community event and social media campaign.
The brainchild of Sophia Rabinovitz, Artivism Dance Theatre (ADT) is a collective dedicated to bringing awareness of social issues to a broad spectrum of audiences through dance theatre. Artivism prioritizes communication of social message over esoteric performance, often using multimedia techniques in our work. We believe that art, and specifically movement, can communicate perspective and experience across gaps in culture, language, and tradition that might otherwise remain unbreachable.
Artivism Dance Theatre is comprised of dance professionals with years of experience in both performance and instruction. Trained in a great variety of techniques Artivism’s repertoire displays the expertise of company members ranging from movements of the African diaspora to ballet.
Caught Up was initially ideated in collaboration with Bruce Reilly, a formerly incarcerated person, and community organizer, currently serving as the Deputy Director of Voice of The Experienced. Bruce acts as an artistic consultant and community liaison for Caught Up. Additional collaborators include the company members of Artivism Dance Theatre, a documentary crew headed by producer Chana Rose Rabinovitz, stakeholders from various community organizations, and most importantly choreographic workshop artists. This project is Artivism’s first project focused on mass incarceration as a collective. However, individuals within the collective have years of experience working for criminal justice reform.
Organizer
Sophia Rabinovitz
Organizer
New Orleans, LA
