Dance for Dignity - Work in Prisons
Arunima Kumar has pioneered programs in Tihar Prison, Asia’s largest women’s prison, where dance was used for mental health, self-expression and rehabilitation. Her groundbreaking work led to special legal permission for 25 inmates to perform outside prison — a historic first.

Dance for Dignity

Inspired by poems of women inmates, performed at Sadler’s Wells

Arunima Kumar has pioneered programs in Tihar Prison, Asia’s largest women’s prison, where dance was used for mental health, self-expression and rehabilitation. Her groundbreaking work led to special legal permission for 25 inmates to perform outside prison — a historic first.

Inspired by poems of women inmates, performed at Sadler’s Wells.

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