In Support of Dance: looking back at DSN

On July 12, 2011, I had the honor of engaging in a conversation with two pillars of Hartford’s dance community, Judy Dworin and Kathy Borteck Gersten (Artistic/Executive Director and Associate Artistic Director of the Judy Dworin Performance Project respectively).  On this occasion both women chatted with me about Dance Services Network (DSN), an organization founded in 1980 to support and advocate for dance in Greater Hartford.   As a teenager, I was fortunate to have an incredibly generous high school teacher who brought me to seemingly every dance event in Hartford.  In retrospect, I now know that many of these events were organized by DSN.  It was in this context that I had… read more