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 […]
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 […]