ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the themes emerging from one of these creative criminological performative pieces. It deciphers the meanings of dance in prison by attempting to explore how choreographic propositions translate into criminological propositions with a Paris-based choreographer, Claire Jenny. The chapter presents prison in the wider public debate by addressing culture in prison and prison in culture. The author was awarded a Faculty Research Chair in Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa entitled Prison in Culture, Culture in Prison. The chapter also describes how the confined body can achieve some spaces of freedom through performance and reclaiming, albeit temporarily, the space of confinement. The participant's physical bodies as sites where their individual, social, theoretical and discursive understandings of confinement, imprisonment and the prison are explored and negotiated. The chapter also explores open spaces of dialogue within academe by conceptualizing criminology in a different voice.
