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Our Mission

Scapegoat Garden is a collaborative dance theater based in Hartford, Connecticut, driven to create daring, interdisciplinary performance that goes in through the nose, eyes, skin, ears and mouth to stir those who witness or participate.

Scapegoat Garden strives to accomplish this mission through: Innovative performance works created through collaboration and presented to the public in theaters, alternative performance spaces and on video. Community-building collaborative projects generated by a diverse group of artists who support one another and the collective work.

Ground-breaking arts education programs geared to, but not limited to, teenagers and young adults - to engage, inform and transform through pioneering performance, video, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations. Significant contributions to the cultural fabric of Connecticut; encouraging the creation and maturation of local arts and artists through advocacy and partnerships with community arts organizations.

In the quest to create original performance works built on a commitment to artistic integrity, the company conjures lush worlds where movement, music, sound, video, costume, set and light design are brought together to engage, inspire, inform and transform. These works walk the line between technique, form, process and a genuine expression of our human experience. Scapegoat Garden was founded by Hartford-native in 2002, and established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts organization in 2004. Scapegoat Garden’s repertory has been selected for performance in festivals and venues throughout the region including Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center , the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine, as well as New York City’s Raw Material Performance Series, and the 92nd Street Y. The company is currently in residence as part of Billings Forge Community Works’ Workshop series.

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Deborah Goffe   810 Tower Ave   Hartford, CT 06112   860.881.9943  
deborah@scapegoatgarden.org

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