In 2022 UCSF Sociology Doctoral student Jhia Jackson began dancing for Flyaway Productions, a site-specific aerial dance company, joining the company in time for the third part in The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex one Dance at a Time. Jo Kreiter, artistic director of Flyaway Productions, details the creative process that goes into this exemplar of community partnerships, advocacy, collaborative creation, and innovative artistry in the following article. You can spot Jhia wearing all pink in the accompanying photos/videos. 

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Abstract

(author: Jo Kreiter (Flyaway Productions)

In 2021 and 2022, I led the creation of a site specific performance project rooted in my belief that alternatives to incarceration create more public safety than prisons and punishment-driven caging. “Apparatus of Repair” is the third in a trilogy of public art projects called The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex one Dance at a Time. It gathered currently and formerly incarcerated people, as well as survivors of violence. Over two years we dove into restoration, via a vicarious restorative process, knowing that the conversations we generated would inform the creation of site specific public art. This article reflects on the process and performances.

Read the full article at: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/circus/article/id/3678/