SPOTLIGHT: Flex Dance Program

In today’s conversation, I’m talking with the co-leaders of an organization that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for a number of years:  Ragz Bruland and Michael Aryee of Flex Dance Program. 

Ragz and Michael founded Flex Dance as a response to the problem of mass incarceration. They wanted to tap into the expansiveness and movement of dance as a way to help young people especially see beyond a system that can sometimes feel stuck. 

Their organization - through programs and community partnerships - provides young people not just with safe and engaging ways to spend their time - they are also creating a powerful and inclusive community that embraces young people and gives them a cultural home rooted in self-expression and joy. 

 In this conversation, we talk about their own personal relationship to dance - and to flex dance in particular - and about how that deep personal connection helped them see dance as a vehicle for wider impact and broader social change. 

It’s a beautiful and powerful origin story, and a beautiful and powerful vision for change.

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