Book excerpt: "in 2016, choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman began a five-year choreographic residency inside the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security state men's prison in Norco, California. The project, dubbed "Dancing through prison walls," has developed into a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and how we survive restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty. The act of dancing while incarcerated has revealed itself as profound and liberatory, shining a light on the radical boldness of the incarcerated dancers, even under the intense realities of constant surveillance, enforced physical isolation, and severe limitations on movement. The project and its new focus, "Choreographing our stories," abruptly ended in March 2020, when the California state prison system shut down programming and visitation due to Covid-19. The work was rapidly revised, and the incarcerated dancers - Brandon, Yusef, Richie, Landon, Carlos, Terry, Raymond, Angel, and Clinton began sending out written choreographies from their bunks to the outside world. The resulting deeply imagined work, written between March and May of 2020, was dubbed "Undanced dances through prison walls during a pandemic."--Page [3]