Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc.
   
Welcome!

Judy Dworin Performance Project is an award-winning, socially and community conscious organization whose work on stage, in schools and in prison communities raises awareness and provides compelling experiences through multi-arts performance and residencies.

Thoughtful, intelligent, relevant work.
~Greater Hartford Arts Council

The entire JDPP team, both on stage and behind the scenes, has been a pleasure to work with, and strives for and maintains the highest standards in terms of their work and performance.
~Recent project collaborator

I wish more people knew about JDPP. I feel like the organization is an unsung treasure.
~Private funder

JDPP Awarded 2012 City of Hartford Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant

Out of an incredibly competitive application pool, with 38 grant applications requesting more than $1.2 million, JDPP was one of only 16 projects ultimately selected for funding. JDPP received $15,168 for our Youth With Incarcerated Parents (YWIP) High School Mentor Project, in which we will train and employ high school students from A.I. Prince Technical High School who have a parent in prison to become mentors for younger children in various YWIP workshops. Through this grant, 8 students will build self-confidence and self-concept, learn to work collaboratively in a group, develop leadership skills, learn about various art forms and become more comfortable with and adept at engaging in these forms with children, enhance problem solving skills and creativity, and develop a stronger ability to communicate about the issues that surround having a parent in prison, both personally and in terms of the larger youth population.

We are incredibly proud and excited to be able to expand this important aspect of our work! With many thanks to Mayor Pedro Segarra, the City of Hartford, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.

 

Thanks to all who made the New London premiere a success!

"The show - an amalgamation of dance, song and narration - not only brings the past to life, but it also explores it artistically and places it in a new, up-to-the-moment context. ‘In This House’ made its New London debut Thursday night at the Garde Arts Center. The standing ovation it earned pretty much said it all." Read the entire review by Kristina Dorsey from the New London Day.

In addition to the premiere, In This House: New London Making History • Moving Forward includes community events, educational forums, living history tours, art exhibits, theatrical productions and other activities that are still going on. Check out the project's webpage for more details.


What people are saying about In This House

"Powerful" -- "Relevant" -- "Rich" -- "A Must-See"



“...A very powerful resonant theme of compassion, self-love, and the fullness of living morally… Superbly evocative of every house that enslaves the spirit in us all, and traps the imagination from envisioning a kind and just world.”
-Pedro Alejandro, Associate Professor of Dance, Wesleyan Dance Department; Artistic Director, Pedro Alejandro Dance & Dancers.

In This House bore the definitive and unmistakable JDPP signature; the unthinkable was illuminated with compassion, grace and honor while leaving the audience with the challenge of moving beyond complicity.”
-Karen Oien, former Deputy Warden at York Correctional Institution

”My students were moved. In This House is an academically viable program that enhances my teaching of the number one sin in America, slavery.”
-Joyce B. Teed, English Department, Bolton High School

" The performers delivered a riveting rendition of a story and style the students aren't used to... It brought tears to my eyes"
- Jennifer Hunt, Teacher, Sedgwick Middle School

“Simplicity in its most profound form… a courageous message of inherent beauty.”
-Dee Basch, Audience Member

In This House in the Media

The Hartford Courant
Judy Dworin Performance Project Presents In This House.
New london’s Joshua Hempsted House is Lead Character in New Dance Project
By SUSAN DUNNE
April 3, 2011

The Day
The walls 'In This House' have ears
By AMY J. BARRY Special to the Day
April 3, 2011

Where We Live
with John Dankowsky, WNPR
Monday, April 4, 2011