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.

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💛















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

💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
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.














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💛

Heading to Nebraska! We are working with women that just arrived in prison and are living in what they call a diagnostic...
10/02/2025

Heading to Nebraska! We are working with women that just arrived in prison and are living in what they call a diagnostic and evaluation unit.

I can’t imagine the fear they must be feeling with having just been transferred from county jail to now another unknown and traumatic environment. We hope to bring some healing.

Hope to see you 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💛

















10/02/2025
Last day to get your early bird tickets! Join us for our annual celebration where passion meets purpose! Dance with loca...
09/30/2025

Last day to get your early bird tickets! Join us for our annual celebration where passion meets purpose! Dance with local teachers and DTBF grads who are now free. Hear from formally incarcerated men and women and enjoy drinks and food.💛

Hey friends! Wanted to make sure you all know to get your DANCEFEST tickets at the early bird price which ends on Tuesda...
09/26/2025

Hey friends! Wanted to make sure you all know to get your DANCEFEST tickets at the early bird price which ends on Tuesday. Hope you can make the event! Link 🔗 in bio💛

Beautiful moments captured by  last week at the Beacon. We will be sharing a dozen of our graduate’s portraits on Octobe...
09/08/2025

Beautiful moments captured by last week at the Beacon. We will be sharing a dozen of our graduate’s portraits on October 11 at our upcoming DANCEFEST💛

Get your early bird tickets to DANCEFEST on 10/11 7-10p at the 💛

💛Listen to Speakers, dance with local teachers and DTBF grads

💛Wine pull

Where passion meets purpose💛

Early bird NOW until 10/1 $75
$95/door - link in bio to register

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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!

Beautiful moments from prison in Pueblo:“We all want to go home”“I am learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortabl...
06/09/2025

Beautiful moments from prison in Pueblo:

“We all want to go home”

“I am learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable”

“We say we want to break the cycle but here we are”

One woman had to get her wrist seen by a doctor today in Canon City where she’s from - she saw her house from the transport vehicle💔

The trauma that these women have survived gets passed on like a vampire’s bite. The ancestral trauma is deep and real.

It is palpable and often leaves us feeling very discombobulated, but these women were such a pleasure to work with and choreograph with💛

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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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