Judy Dworin’s commitment to education has had an extended history at Trinity College, where she founded the Dance Program, co-founded the  Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Semester in New York City, and chaired the Department of Theater and Dance for many years. Judy’s work in performance and teaching is informed by her belief in the wisdom of the body and its spontaneous and creative expression as a foundational element to our growth and development. She focuses her work on interarts collaborative performance and residency outreaches to underserved populations.

Judy founded the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc. (JDPP, Inc.) in 1989 based on her belief in the important role the arts play in challenging and creating change in our universe—personal, educational, and global. Through her artistic vision, the Project provides cutting-edge performance that addresses issues of social justice through the Ensemble; a ground-breaking educational residency program of long standing, Moving Matters!, that supports a collaborative residency with Trinity at Parkville Community School; and Bridging Boundaries--a program that reaches out to those affected by incarceration including women in prison, reentering the community, children with parents in prison and mothers in prison and their children.

Selected Dance Theater Works: A repertory of fourteen full-evening works and numerous shorter works addresses issues of gender and social justice including (for further information go to www.judydworin.org):

• Meditations from a Garden Seat, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 2012
• In This House, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 2010, toured to the Garde Arts Center
• The Witching Hour, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 2007, toured to Katherine Hepburn Arts Center  
• Time In  Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT, 2006 toured to Kennedy Center, Wesleyan University, Vassar College 2006. 
• ¿dónde estás? 2001, Charter Oak Cultural Center, toured to La MaMa Annex, New York City,
  Simon’s Rock College

Publications:

• Dworin, Judy, "Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out." In Performing New Live: Prison Theatre, edited by Jonathan Shailor, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
• Dworin, Judy. “Thanksgiving Musings on 9/11.” In To Mend the World: Women Reflection 9/11, M. Agosin and B. J. Craige, Buffalo:White Wine Press, 2002.
• Dworin, Judy. “Performing Mandalas.” In Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal, edited by Ellison Findly, Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
• Dworin, Judy. “Improvisation as Performance,” Contact Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 3/4.
• “Dance of the Disappeared: The Journal of Judy Dworin,” Northeast Magazine,
   The Sunday Magazine of The Hartford Courant, March 4, 2001.
  

Honors/Grants:

• Trinity Institutional Award for Service to Underserved Populations, Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, 2014
• Honoree for the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame--Celebrating Voice and Vision, 2012
• Hartford Courant Tapestry Award to the Judy Dworin Performance Project for honoring diversity and bridging diverse sectors of the community, 2010  
• Charter Oak Cultural Center Vision Award: Arts in Education, 2006 
• Connecticut Dance Alliance Award for Distinguished Service, 2006 
• Bloomer’s Award, Northeast Magazine,  Hartford Courant, 2000 
• Governor’s Arts Award, 1999 
• Citation for Excellence in the Arts, Commission on Higher Education, 1999 
• Connecticut Advocate for the Arts (CCA), 1998 
• Numerous grants from such foundations as the National Endowment for the Arts, Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Common Sense Fund, J. Walton Bissell Foundation, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut among others.