'Everyone is just praying to get out': Young people in youth detention use dance project to tell their stories

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'Everyone is just praying to get out': Young people in youth detention use dance project to tell their stories
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Compass takes you inside two youth justice centres in NSW to follow the creative, and often emotional, process culminating in public performances.

, was granted access inside two youth justice centres in NSW to document the creative, and often emotional, process late last year.Kelly ended up in Reiby after years in and out of refuges, couch surfing and stints of being homeless.

She has a bail hearing during the Phunktional workshops and is hoping she'll be released — a moment she has imagined for an uplifting final scene of the dance she's choreographed. "It was a bit of a kick in the gut. I was pretty upset, but there's no point in stressing about something that's out of my control ... but it is pretty hard, living a life that's not in my control."Boys 'in need of cultural nourishment'For dancer Paul Skuthorpe-Spearim, a proud Gomeroi man, it's an emotional reunion with a group of boys from his home town Moree.

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