From Judy Dworin
JDPP Executive/Artistic Director
The Justice Dance Performance Project (JDPP) is a critically acclaimed dance and multi-arts organization. Its mission is to educate, inspire, and ignite awareness, bridging the boundaries of art and social justice to create a more equitable society in ways that spark individual growth and collective action.
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There are only 13 days left to donate to JDPP through the Travelers Championship Birdies for Charity by Webster Bank program. As of today, we have raised $8,487 toward our $10,000 goal. Thank you so much to all who have donated!
Donate today and help us earn a 15% bonus thanks to Webster Bank! tinyurl.com/JDPPBirdies2025
Congratulations to Community Partners in Action and the Hon. Maureen Price-Boreland, former CPA Executive Director and current Superior Court Judge, on the dedication of their Washington Street complex. Judge Price-Boreland led CPA from 1997–2018 and was instrumental in securing this four-building complex—creating a welcoming, innovative space for adults and youth in reentry.
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JDPP joins hundreds of other nonprofit leaders, staff, clients, and community supporters today at the Capitol to use one unified voice to tell legislators to step up and fight for nonprofits and the funding that is so vital to continue our work!
Terrific event!
Thank you all for going to this important event and representing JDPP with class 👍🥰
So great seeing all of you today💜💜
Yesterday JDPP asked the question: Why Do You Love the Arts while proudly standing alongside fellow advocates lifting up the power of the arts at the CT State Capitol for Arts, Culture, and Tourism Day!
Join Community Partners in Action this Saturday, April 26 for their 5th Annual Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars Interprofessional Summit — a free, virtual event exploring the intersection of health, incarceration, and justice.
Longtime JDPP participant and performer Victoria Steele will be delivering the closing keynote address.
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Thank you Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for this beautiful acknowledgment 💜Judy Dworin is a dance maker and arts programming innovator committed to repairing a fractured world. In 1989, she founded the Justice Dance Performance Project, Inc. (JDPP), the centerpiece of her life’s work. Since 2005, she has developed arts residencies in Connecticut correctional institutions, which have grown into a comprehensive outreach to incarcerated individuals, their families, and the broader public through transformative performance.
Believing that art inspires change—and that small, collective shifts can create powerful impact—Judy uses movement and the arts to foster healing, connection, and social transformation. Her work challenges perceptions of incarcerated individuals and returning citizens across community, educational, and professional settings as well as delving into other social issues through her professional performance Ensemble and long-standing educational residences in Hartford schools.
For the past 20 years, JDPP has cultivated strong partnerships with the Connecticut Department of Correction, prison administrators, and counselors to develop Bridging Boundaries™, a program serving justice-impacted individuals in three adult prisons, three juvenile detention centers, and the community.
A Professor Emerita of Theater and Dance at Trinity College, Judy established the Dance Program and chaired the Department of Theater and Dance for many years. In 2020, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the College.
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A true Blessing to our world. Congrats!
Fantastic!! 💜💜💜
Excellent! Congratulations 👏
So AMAZING!!💕💕
A local treasure
Amazing Judy. Congratulations 🎊🎈🎉
This is awesome!! So deserving!! Way to ROCK, Judy!!!
Congratulations Judy! Wonderful just wonderful.
Amazing! So well deserved
Absolutely beautiful! And so well deserved! Congratulations!
Wow! Judy what a terrific tribute AND you are a honorary dr! I didn’t know that xx
Well deserved
Yes! 💜💜💜
Awesome! A heart and vision like no other!! ❤️🎉
Wonderful and well-deserved tribute - congratulations👍❤️
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Beautiful and well-deserved tribute!! Congratulations Judy!
Congratulations Judy! So well deserved!🎉💕
Congratulations! So well deserved!💜
Woohoo! Yes!!!
Today, April 22, is Earth Day! A day where we must take the time to reflect on our home, the one home that we have. Get outside today and do something small or big for this amazing planet of ours.
Community Partners in Action will hold their Hartford Reentry Resource Fair on Wednesday, April 30!
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Join us on Zoom—4/22 at 6pm for Time: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow! This performance is FREE however registration is required. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yh9itqdwTl-XBijrFL5OJw#/registration