Justice Dance Performance Project Blog
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 […]
October 17, 2024
Her Body Speaks Expression through dance is the poetry of movement language. It is the foundation upon which JDPP’s work is built. Giving voice, ensuring […]
September 19, 2024
Reading transports me—it removes me from the present moment and expands my understanding of people in so many different contexts, of nature, of this world […]
August 22, 2024
August is the ending of summer and its green and the beginning of fall, with leaves showing small hints of color growing more brilliant in […]
October 6, 2023
October 1-7 is Banned Book Week. First established in 1982, it is a week that promotes awareness and celebrates the freedom to read. For more […]
October 6, 2023
JDPP’s New Beginnings program is a unique 10-week arts engagement with women and men who have returned to the community from carceral settings joining Trinity […]
October 6, 2023
Dear JDPP friend, When we started our performance residencies at York Correctional Institution in 2005, we were permitted to take the piece that we had […]
November 10, 2023
Sharing Lives Art Matters (SLAM) is our outreach to youth currently residing at the Bridgeport and Hartford juvenile detention facilities. JDPP teaching artists meet weekly […]
November 10, 2023
Eyes Wide Open A few weeks ago, I finished reading Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus–a captivating personal account of the deep intelligence and […]