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Judy Dworin, Founder, Executive & Artistic Director Dance/theater artist Judy Dworin has received widespread recognition among diverse audiences for her socially charged, visually powerful performance work. Her wide-ranging repertoire gives particular voice to women’s perspectives, human rights and earth-centered issues. Judy investigates a pared-down, expressive movement vocabulary that is carefully integrated with visual elements, sound and often text. Her work creates emotionally moving and transformative images that challenge and provoke with a multi-layered intensity. She has been noted for her sharp wit as well as her ability to delve into the darker reaches of experience shaped by a sense of possibility. Her work is informed by her commitment to process and collaboration. Judy is the recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Culture & Tourism’s Individual Artist Grant and an NEA/Regional New Forms Grant, as well as numerous state and private foundation grants for her work with the Ensemble and the Moving Matters! Residency Program, including the Greater Hartford Arts Council, NEFA/ Meet the Composer, Roberts Foundation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Haymarket People’s Fund, Aetna Foundation, United Technologies Corporation, Kellogg Education Fund and the Dreyfus Foundation to name a few. In addition, she was an artist-in-residence in Sofia, Bulgaria under the auspices of Dance Theater Workshop's special Suitcase Fund for Eastern Europe, the International Theatre Institute, and the Chitalishte Foundation. She is currently Professor of Dance and Co-Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Trinity College where she initially designed and instituted the dance program. She has been selected by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism as a Teaching Artist for the state of Connecticut and is a recipient of a Distinguished Advocate for the Arts 1998 and the prestigious Governor’s Arts Award 1999. In 2001, she was awarded a Connecticut Bloomer Award by Northeast Magazine for her contribution to the Connecticut’s cultural life for ¿dónde estás? and in 2006, she received a Vision Award for Arts and Education from Charter Oak Cultural Center and the Connecticut Dance Alliance Award for distinguished contributions to the field. She has had articles published in such journals and books as Contact Quarterly, Northeast Magazine, Ellison Findly’s(ed) Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women and Marjorie Agosin & Betty Jean Craige’s(eds) To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11. She was also asked to contribute a chapter to a new book, “Performing New Lives: Reflectionson Prison Theatre in the United States”, being edited by Jonathan Shailor, Associate Professor of Communications at University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and being published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in the spring of 2010.