Dworin Ensemble Marks Milestone with Dance Performance
 Groups of third, fourth, and fifth graders wearing brightly colored
T-shirts filled the Washington Room with their energy on April 14, to
celebrate the eighth consecutive year of the Judy Dworin Performance
Ensemble’s (JDPE) residency at Hartford’s Parkville School. This
unique, long-term residency integrates movement with the students’
language arts and visual arts programs through weekly movement classes
led by JDPE teaching artists. Trinity students serve as teaching
assistants for the program as part of their “Education through
Movement” course with Kathy Borteck Gersten, a visiting lecturer in
theater and dance who is also the associate artistic director of JDPE.
Ten classes of the elementary school children performed to the live,
specially composed music of Sirius Coyote, a Connecticut-based group
of musicians, instrument makers, and storytellers playing “music of
the Americas,” in a large-scale performance of “Making the World,”
inspired by the book of the same name by Douglas Wood. The Washington
Room was transformed with imaginative and colorful set pieces—setting
the mood for an afternoon of dancing that blended “the spirit of
childhood with the sophistication of an artist.”
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