What we learned from working with women in prison | JoAnne Tucker & Áine McCarthy | TEDxABQWomen

Описание: Áine first met JoAnne in Santa Fe in 2012 where they discovered that two of JoAnne’s dancers from Avodah Dance Ensemble had stayed in Áine’s family home in Connecticut while they were participating in The Forgiveness Project, a collaboration building a dance with incarcerated women at York Correctional Institution ten years earlier. The Forgiveness Project planted early seeds of inspiration for Áine as a teenager, leading her to pursue working in prisons and meeting JoAnne began their ongoing collaboration together offering contemplative and art-based programs at the Santa Fe County Jail, Esperanza Shelter and other community organizations with a focus on empowering women.

JoAnne Tucker (PhD,) founded and was artistic director of the Avodah Dance Ensemble from 1973 to 2004, a modern dance company that was based in New York City. In 2002 Avodah began doing residencies in women’s correctional institutions. Drawing on her dance training from Juilliard, undergraduate work in theatre at the University of Pittsburgh and doctoral program at the University of Wisconsin, JoAnne is dedicated to bringing dance and movement activities to non-traditional environments.

Áine Pierandi McCarthy holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut where she first started volunteering in prisons through Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education. She is a graduate of the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training at Upaya Zen Center and now serves as co-director of this program. Áine is also a certified Labyrinth Facilitator through Veriditas, an organization dedicated to sharing the labyrinth as a contemplative tool and works as a board member of the Labyrinth Resource Group of Santa Fe.

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