Judy Dworin Performance Project
Moving for Change Since 1989.
Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP) harnesses the arts as a powerful change agent and catalyst for collaboration and community. JDPP’s performances and residencies create spaces that release the imagination and allow deep reflection, constructive action and out of the box exploration of self and society. We celebrate the dignity of all beings, the wisdom of the body, the deep reflective capacity of the mind and the hopeful possibility that through the arts we can together work for and create a more positive world for the present moment and the future. In the darkest places we find inspiration and hope. Come join us!
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We are ready for Parkville Community School and their Moving Matters! Residency culmination performance!
Robyn Genzano, our Director of Operations and Community Engagement is representing JDPP at Day One of Nonprofit Alliance Week at the Capitol!It's Day One of Nonprofit Alliance Weeks at the Capitol! Stop by the Concourse today through Thursday; we'll have 12 different nonprofits exhibiting each day from 10am-2pm.
Join us for JDPP's Moving Matters! Parkville residency culminating performance! April 24, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. Trinity College: Ferris Athletic Center, Oosting Gym: Broad Street entrance. All are welcome, this event is free and open to the public!
Stream this amazing documentary: www.pbs.org/show/independent-lens/
thecrimereport.org
One in 14 American children are growing up with at least one parent incarcerated. A new documentary by Denali Tiller explores what that means through the eyes of the kids themselves.Don't miss Finding Stillness tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the Hartford Public Library! This event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
It was incredible of course - these brave women sharing their stories- thank you! 🙏😘
Tuesday, April 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Hartford Public Library join us for a staged reading/performance and talk back about pieces created by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women at York Correctional Institution in Niantic CT as well as family members affected by incarceration from Judy Dworin Performance Project’s latest prison-related performance “Finding Stillness.”
Twenty junior and senior dancers from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts attended the 2019 Regional High School Dance Festival at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, March 15-19, 2019. The Academy was also honored to be one of six schools selected to perform in the festival’s Gala Performance. The students performed JDPP's “My Body, My Body” a piece that finds three women, bound in body bags, gradually shed their old skin and reclaim their bodies to a rhythmic chant that twists their turns with humor and an edge. The piece was an enormous hit and received a standing ovation, as well as accolades from many college recruiters in the audience!
Thank you so much for allowing us to share your work and this brilliant piece!!! ❤️
On March 14, Hartford Public Library held the opening of 40 Years of Community Partners in Action's Prison Arts Program on their ArtWalk. The exhibit will be up until April 28.Opening of 40 Years of CPA's Prison Arts Program on HPL's ArtWalk last night. Great turnout!
CT Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative - CTCIP
NEWS ALERT: The Connecticut General Assembly has introduced a bill that would put an end to the exploitation of human connection between those inside and outside its prison walls.HB 6714 protects access to phone calls and makes them FREE. It also makes communication services like video calling and emails both supplementary and FREE. It protects in-person visits regardless of what telecom advancements are introduced.
The Judiciary Committee is holding a public hearing this Monday, March 25th, at 10am at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, CT.
Come join in demanding that children and families of incarcerated individuals are considered & heard!
Just a couple of pieces of art created at our Bridging Boundaries Dads & Kids special visit, which took place last week. Love and Family is really what it it all about!
We’re all set up! Come visit us at The Theater of Performing Arts! 359 Washington St.! And while you’re here pick up a ticket for tonight’s performance of (US)!
Haven't bought your tickets to tonight's performance of (US)? Great news...tickets will be available at the door! You can also still purchase them through Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/USticketsJDPP
PARKING: Convenient parking is available at the Learning Corridor Parking Garage at the Theater of Performing Arts. To reach the parking garage you should drive past the theater located at 385 Washington Street, Hartford CT and turn right onto Brownell St. The parking garage is located down the first driveway on the right. Once you have parked, exit the garage on the campus side, not the side of Washington Street. Turn right and walk along the side of the building that is connected to the parking garage. The white building is the theater. Go around the corner to the front side and enter through the Box Office Entrance or the Main Entrance.
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Doors not Walls. Leaving, Arriving, Rediscovering (us). (US) is a timely and provocative exploration of the tensions and world views in public dialog about our country’s foundational tenets of inclusiveness, diversity, and free speech. Through dance, visual imagery and a layered sound score, (US) ...Congrats to our neighbors!Good News Everyone! 😁
RE·Center is excited to announce that we’re the recipients of a Betty Knox Foundation Grant! This grant will cover the costs for up to 40 Hartford residents to attend one of our Equity in Education workshops for FREE.
Workshops range from 2-hour introductories to 2-day intensive sessions. Our workshops help participants learn ways to create more inclusive, welcoming and equitable environments. They are relevant for parents, educators, representatives from non-profits, health care, youth development, and higher education. If interested in attending, and are a Hartford resident, please contact Rinne, our Administrative & Program Assistant at rfruster@re-center.org for more details!
THIS THURSDAY! Get your tickets today for (US) tinyurl.com/USticketsJDPP
JDPP would like to congratulate Judy Dworin's sister Dee Basch on publishing "Bearing Witness". A beautiful and poignant collection of poems and illustrations collaboratively created with her good friend June Shuman. The book is available today at Lulu.com and soon to be available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. www.lulu.com/shop/dee-basch-and-june-shuman/bearing-witness/paperback/product-23932157.html
congrats to you my dear friend how wonderful
Congratulations look forward to reading the poems!
That is great. Congratulations!
Wonderful!
Mazel Tov!
Wow...congratulations, Dee!
Join JDPP Teaching Artist Robin Cullen on Monday, March 18th as The Connecticut Women's Consortium screens Making Me Whole: Prison, Art, and Healing. JDPP's documentary, made in partnership with CPTV To RSVP for this FREE event visit, cwc_makingmewhole.eventbrite.com
THIS FRIDAY: exhibition opening of "Women of York: Shared Dining." Inmates at Niantic's York Correctional Institute were inspired by Judy Chicago's feminist masterpiece "The Dinner Party" (www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/dinner_party) and set about setting their own dining table. With limited access to materials, these women created intricate place settings celebrating their female heroes. Come be inspired Friday, March 8th from 6pm to 8pm. FREE!
J. Walton Bissell Foundation, Inc. 
Digel Family Foundation Ensworth Charitable Foundation 
Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust through Trinity College 
Isabella's Pink Bus George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation 
Sharon R. O’Meara Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Stewart B. McKinney Foundation 
Charles Nelson Robinson Fund 
Watkinson Prisoners Aid Society Sponsors: BlumShapiro Budwitz & Meyerjack P.C. Hardman Law Offices GeoQuest, Inc. Roger’s Fine Liquors Yankee Discount Liquor … and a huge THANK YOU to the many Friends who have supported JDPP over the years!