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Created and Performed by
David J. Popalisky
in collaboration with
Cookie Ridolfi
VIDEO!
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| "With just over two million people incarcerated
in the United States, even considering a one percent error rate which
is a conservative estimate, we're talking twenty thousand innocent
people in prison." |
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- Cookie Ridolfi,
Director of the
Northern California
Innocence Project.
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Barred from Life explores the human
experience of wrongful conviction. This powerful performance work premiered
March 31st, 2004 at Santa Clara University to enthusiastic acclaim from
over 500 audience members over two performances. Based on interviews with
exonerated individuals conducted by SCU Dance Professor David J. Popalisky,
Barred from Life combines dance movement, video imagery,
original music and interview excerpts to uniquely illuminate the exonerees
tragically real, but often invisible stories.
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