Publications on music and dance education in prisons

Documentation:

The Movable Barres Background Research Report, aiming to identify current practices of music and dance education in European prisons. Thanks to the questionnaires compiled by partners' countries prisons, the results were collected and analysed to show the current context at European level.
The Academy - A Report on Outcomes for Participants: A report by Andrew Miles and Paul Strauss covering June 2006 to June 2008, Dane United. And here is the Summary Report
A tale by Roberto Righi published on the magazine I Martedì, about a music performance in the Manchester Prison
Two collections of Good Practices in Italy: Music and other companies - Success stories in Italy (by Amitié)
Beats & Bars - Music in Prisons: an evaluation - A report of a series of five-day music projects which took place in eight men’s prisons across England from October 2007 to July 2008.
The text of the interview to Laura Mazza, coreographer of the movie Tutta colpa di Giuda - in Italian.
Computer Based composing as Music teaching method in GVO Oslo Prison
Significant art examples reported in the Italian magazine Teatri delle diversità
PRINCESE - Diario di bordo. Memorie di teatro e carcere: theatre performance presentation

www.epea.org - European Prison Education website
www.coorpi.org - a website concerning Dance with useful contents and contacts (in Italian)
www.panproject.org - the European project website promoting visual art education in prisons
www.cssudine.it - theatre and art education for prisoners, with an Italian cultural agency
www.dance-united.com/academy.html - the Academy evaluation report
www.dance-united.com/videos.html - some videos of Dance United’s work
www.medfilmfestival.org/medfilm2009/it/include/attivita/methex.php - The Mediterranean Film Festival hosts short movies proposed by offenders and prisons.