Surrender Dance in Prison      by Anonymous  Drawing by Wendy Shuster.  charcoal on paper.  folds fall open and close, 2008.  I sweated a lot the first day I taught dance at the prison. The prisoners sweated a lot. Prison is not a place that invites you to be embodied in a risky way, to sweat together, especially men and women. Men and woman. It’s the small print in the contract that one implicitly signs when entering a men’s prison as a woman—you will not have a body. Your body will be as unexpressive, conservative, packaged, normative, and erased as possible. And then we sweat. (continued on CQ journal website) +++++++++++ one of my charcoal-paintings (above) from an ongoing series was selected to accompany this article in Contact Quarterly.  this is just the beginning of a very fine article. please visit Contact Quarterly to read the full article by a dancer/choreographer/teacher about dance/movement explorations with prisoners.