Justice Dance Performance Project Blog
April 17, 2025
Making Memory: Marjorie Agosín (June 15, 1955 – March 10, 2025) On March 10, 2025, Marjorie Agosín, a Chilean Jewish poet, novelist, and essayist who […]
March 20, 2025
Moving Really Does Matter by Kathy Borteck Gersten This month’s blog is contributed by Kathy Borteck Gersten, JDPP’s Associate Artistic Director and the Director of Moving […]
February 20, 2025
Still Rising by Mellissa Craig (This month’s blog post is contributed by Mellissa Craig, dancer, teacher and activist at JDPP and throughout Hartford, JDPP’s ArtsReach […]
January 16, 2025
To Stand Strong JDPP singer/songwriter Leslie Bird created a special song for our Bridging Boundaries programs more than a decade ago. It is a song […]
December 19, 2024
What We Do Matters From my experience as a dance maker, teacher, and social change activator, I know that movement, the arts, and performance have […]
November 21, 2024
On Gratitude Yesterday, I looked out my window and saw a red-tailed hawk coming in for a landing. She tilted just enough so I could […]
February 1, 2023
In this past year, the JDPP Ensemble and I have been exploring the beauty, power, and wisdom of trees. We have appreciated them viscerally – […]
April 1, 2023
Do you believe in second chances? I do. And my work in Connecticut’s state prisons since 2005 has only strengthened my belief that people deserve […]
May 1, 2023
On May 7, we completed the seasonal cycle of In the Presence of Trees, developing four incarnations of the piece inspired by the trees in […]
June 1, 2023
On Sunday afternoon I sat on the lawn of the Butler McCook House in Hartford and took in the captivating energy of the Renaissance Gyal […]
July 6, 2023
On June 26 and 28, JDPP celebrated the return of our Performance Residency at York CI for its 18th year, now live and in person […]