Chef Maria Cooper

LET’S DANCE! 💃✨
Join us for our Annual Dance To Be Free Fundraiser on Sunday, October 18th! Dance To Be Free brings the healing power of movement to people who are incarcerated, helping reduce anxiety and depression while creating opportunities for connection, self-expression, and joy. Come dance with us, support our mission, and help us expand our programming to reach even more people in prison.
We hope you’ll join us! ❤️

WildBeat❤️‍🔥🍃

WildBeat is creative✨, free-form movement✨ in a non-judgmental, welcoming space.
Through rhythm, freedom, and dance, we find connection to ourselves and, if you choose, with each other.
Participants are invited to contribute music to the group experience.👯‍♂️👯🧚

When:

Sundays at 12:15 PM
Alchemy Of Movement
After SoulSweat

Facilitated by Maria

💛🌼 Dance To Be Free at La Vista & The Beacon 🌼💛

Ten years ago, Lucy Wallace brought Dance To Be Free to La Vista. Since then, DTBF has completed more than 20 trainings, helping build a lasting culture of dance, leadership, and community. 💪

Every Thursday, La Vista’s dance leaders teach two one-hour classes for the general population—bringing women together to move, connect, and experience freedom through rhythm. This Thursday night was a powerful class! The women were dancing the choreography of Lucy Wallace and Misa Terral, and several of their own pieces. 💛

With La Vista’s primary dance leader recently released, DTBF returned this week for a leadership workshop focused on strengthening the team and building teaching, choreography, and facilitation skills. We’ll be back in September, followed by a full training with the general population later this fall. 💛

And this week, we also made our way to Cañon City to dance with the men at The Beacon (Skyline). Yesterday’s session was full of energy, improv, a dance battle, and even an old-school Zapp Soul Train! 🔥
💛We’ll be back at The Beacon in late September.

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Join us next Saturday, August 29th at the Avalon at 11am to dance with the graduates of DTBF. It will be a special class. Don’t miss it!🦋🦋🦋

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Lucy Wallace Misa June Stacee Hall McGovern Dance To Be Free

Honoring our dear mommas today at with Tsuki, Stacee Hall McGovern’s (DTBF president) new sweet pup. Tsuki couldn’t stop loving on Lucy Wallace (DTBF Founder)!🐾

Gorgeous day! ☀️We are so pumped about the season to come with more prison work in Dance To Be Free. Lucy and I head to Canyon City next week 🙂
June - Nebraska
July - Pueblo
And we are planning more prison trainings!

Read about what we do! https://www.dancetobefree.org/prisons

❤️If you have any interest in contributing so we can keep going to prison to assist the men and women with creative movement and somatic healing, check out this website. Thanks so much in advance!❤️
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Took a trip to Santa Fe to honor a year of my mom’s passing.
Grateful to be here in the spacious beauty

Hi dancers! I will be guest teaching for Jackie Diner Wednesday morning this week at 9am at Alchemy of Movement
I’ll be teaching a low impact SoulSweat class to start the day 🌀

Looking forward to it! 👯💃🏾🕺🏽❤️

Full Moon SoulSweat 🌕✨
Wednesday April 1st | 5:20pm
Alchemy of Movement

We begin with an astro update from Emily Nelsen to ground us in the energy of this Full Moon. 🌕🌀

This moon is an invitation — to open, to expand, to embody the fullness of who you are in your own unique wildness.

Come move, release, and create with us on the dance floor.
Let it be raw, real, and fully alive. 🦋

Zoom option available ✨