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Movement for Mercy is a contemporary dance performance examining & re-imagining US juvenile justice systems, co-created by collaborating artists inside and outside of prison walls. Currently incarcerated dancers and choreographers utilize the Keshet artists on the outside as “movement ambassadors,” bringing their voice and vision to audiences on the outside, locally and nationally. This iteration features work by student collaborators at the John Paul Taylor Center in Las Cruces, one of two remaining post-adjudication facilities in New Mexico. It expands Keshet’s collaborative team, with additional dynamic artists from Los Angeles in partnership with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network and Project Knucklehead.
Movement for Mercy is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, support from the State of New Mexico Economic Development Departments Creative Industries Division, and in partnership with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network and Project Knucklehead.
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