Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM to Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Anti-ICE Quebradita and Letter Writing to ICE detainees, with Irvin Gonzalez and Dignity Not Detention** **Sunday, April 26th | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM** **1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404** **Free + Open to the Public, Registration Required** Quebradita is a Mexican and Mexican American social dance form that first emerged in the 1990s and continues to be practiced today. Rooted in transborder belonging, working-class creativity, and resistance, quebradita has enabled minoritized communities to cultivate and sustain “alegría Mexicana” amid increasingly neoliberal conditions that displace and relocate working-class Mexican and Mexican American families. From its hybridization of Mexican and U.S. American footwork aesthetics to its acrobatic flips and tricks, quebradita remains a creative force for expressing and embracing transborder identities. Everyone is welcome to learn and dance with us. Letter writing to people held by ICE and CBP detention, led by Dignity Not Detention, [https://nydignitynotdetention.org/](https://nydignitynotdetention.org/) **About the artist** Dancing Through Prison Walls is a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within embodied carceral landscapes and beyond, amplifying voices of incarcerated people, and addressing mass incarceration. Begun in 2016, the work embraces a porous community of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and “free world” dancers, choreographers, visual artists, and performers. The resulting hours of dance, dance making, performance, film creation, writing, and community conversations comprise a body of work that is at its essence a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and ways for surviving restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty through the act of dancing. Moving towards their North Star goal of decarceration and abolition, they dance through prison walls. **For more information contact:** https://www.dancingthroughprisonwalls.org/ dancingthroughprisonwalls@gmail.com ##