Dancing in A-Yard

In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing to take a chance to be mocked in the yard, start a dance class led by French choreographer Dimitri Chamblas. This class quickly becomes an intoxicating escape from their grim reality so they decide to create a dance show. In this exceptional context, the inmates engage with overwhelming sincerity, evoking their childhood, ganglife, the crimes, the prison, and their desire for transformation. Beyond damaged lives and a prison system on the edge of the abyss, DANCING IN A-YARD explores redemption and the capacity of human beings to reinvent themselves, when given a chance. And more importantly, how art and introspection can help see the light.

• Manuela DalleDirector

• Dimitri ChamblasHimself
• Dr. Bidhan RoHimself
• Dimitri GalesHimself
• Kenneth WebbHimself
• Antonio ToyHimself
• Jonathan HammondHimself
• Baleegh BrownHimself
• Terry BellHimself
• Tyson AtlasHimself
• Albert 'AJ' BeckleyHimself
• Arshawn GreenHimself
• Randolph HaliburtonHimself