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

why and how? because there’s always a story…

[…] here at the start, it seems appropriate to offer some context around why this website and project came to be.  Consider this a somewhat condensed chronicle of the past three years, the focus of which is why this website exists and how it came to be.  With that said, the timeline goes as follows… [This page is intended to serve as an archive for The Invisible City Project website. While this information is not up to date, it is my hope that its contents continue to provide a point of entry.] AUGUST 2010 On August 25, 2010, Charter Oak Cultural Center called a meeting to… read more