Dance To Be Free

Dance To Be Free Dance To Be Free is changing the lives of incarcerated people through the healing power of dance!

Dance To Be Free’s mission is to radically improve the lives of incarcerated women through the healing power of cathartic dance. We launched our program at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility in 2015 and have since expanded to 17 prisons across the US. We offer live classes, DVDs of our filmed classes and a teacher training program. The regularity of the DVD program is critical in creating lasting change and will give us access to prisons that are in distant or rural areas. The teacher training program gives our students the opportunity to lead and inspire others while gaining a skill they can use during and after their sentence.

Buy a gift for your loved one or yourself while supporting our mission💛 This is a gift basket filled with a tank top, a ...
11/15/2025

Buy a gift for your loved one or yourself while supporting our mission💛

This is a gift basket filled with a tank top, a hoodie, earrings, a water bottle and journal for $100💛

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Want to support our mission? You can sign up for our subscription site, buy merch - if you are local, you can dance with us on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Avalon in East Boulder - all of these offerings support our mission!

Our subscription site has a ton of material from the past eight years including choreography from our prisons. FREE 7 day trial! Link 🔗 in bio💛

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Tday Dance Jam! Join us before your festivities from 9-10a in the Tango Room at the Avalon💛 $20 drop in - all proceeds g...
11/13/2025

Tday Dance Jam! Join us before your festivities from 9-10a in the Tango Room at the Avalon💛 $20 drop in - all proceeds go to DTBF 🦃 Lucy will lead with 2 guest teachers!

Day 2! Working with a subdued group of women who look a little in shock as they all arrived in prison in the last few we...
11/05/2025

Day 2! Working with a subdued group of women who look a little in shock as they all arrived in prison in the last few weeks. Can’t imagine the fear and anxiety they must be going through. Movement and music are profoundly important for this transition. And of all the odds we bumped into state auditors at the Holiday Inn! I was able to share our mission and potentially expand to states they live in.

Just crossed over into Nebraska! Working with two groups of women this week along with our research team.💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛Want to...
11/03/2025

Just crossed over into Nebraska! Working with two groups of women this week along with our research team.

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Want to support our mission? You can sign up for our subscription site, buy merch - if you are local, you can dance with us on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Avalon in East Boulder - all of these offerings support our mission!

Our subscription site has a ton of material from the past eight years including choreography from our prisons. FREE 7 day trial! Link 🔗 in bio💛

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11/01/2025

Today’s class will be on our subscription site tomorrow💛 We also bring this footage to prisons across the US💛 Class is canceled on 11/5 as we are returning to NE!

A beautiful night of celebrating in community! Thank you to our incredible board of directors and donors. It truly take...
10/12/2025

A beautiful night of celebrating in community! Thank you to our incredible board of directors and donors. It truly takes a village to pull this mission off.

Thank you to our speakers who drove a distance to be with us and to our teachers and incredible photographer With .amanda & more!

10/09/2025

The quality is poor but their voices are real!

These women met each other 2 weeks ago in prison - none of them had been to this prison before - I can’t imagine their fear and anxiety yet they were raw and open💛

Listen to Jamie and Sindy share their poetry💛

We will dance their choreography this coming Wednesday at the Avalon and at DANCEFEST on 10/11 at the Saturday from 7-10p

Dance with local teachers, hear from DTBF grads, view our portraits of our graduates from the Beacon and enjoy wine and food while celebrating our mission💛

Where passion meets purpose💛

Photography by

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Want to support our mission? You can sign up for our subscription site, buy merch - if you are local, you can dance with us on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Avalon in East Boulder - all of these offerings support our mission!

Our subscription site has a ton of material from the past eight years including choreography from our prisons. FREE 7 day trial! Link 🔗 in bio💛

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10/09/2025

The quality is poor but their voices are real!

These women met each other 2 weeks ago in prison - none of them had been to this prison before - I can’t imagine their fear and anxiety yet they were raw and open💛

Listen to Jamie and Sindy share their poetry💛

We will dance their choreography at DANCEFEST on 10/11 at the Saturday from 7-10p

Dance with local teachers, hear from DTBF grads, view our portraits of our graduates from the Beacon and enjoy wine and food while celebrating our mission💛

Where passion meets purpose💛

Photography by

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Want to support our mission? You can sign up for our subscription site, buy merch - if you are local, you can dance with us on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Avalon in East Boulder - all of these offerings support our mission!

Our subscription site has a ton of material from the past eight years including choreography from our prisons.
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Four of our NE grads were Native American and moved to tears when they saw our graduate from North Dakota singing from h...
10/06/2025

Four of our NE grads were Native American and moved to tears when they saw our graduate from North Dakota singing from her tribes language💛

Hope to see you Saturday for DanceFest! 10/11 7-10p at the The Boulder Junkyard Social where we will be sharing more footage from our time in Nebraska💛

Reg here or link in bio:

https://www.dancetobefree.org/register-for-events

Thank you for guest teaching this Sat at 11a as we return to the women’s prison💛
10/02/2025

Thank you for guest teaching this Sat at 11a as we return to the women’s prison💛

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