Image taken from above. MELT Summer 2023 Workshop taught by Joanna Kotze at Judson Memorial Church. Dancers lie on their backs with arms spread out. One leg is also extended out as the other seems to be in motion bending at the knee and floating of the ground. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Category: Workshop

Moving in the Morning

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Jul 22 - Jul 26, 2024

A tall black dancer is on the floor with his right arm extended on the high diagonal. His right leg is extended and reaching toward the camera. He is foregrounding a room full of people in a large dance space with a black floor. Photo by Ben McKeown.
Category: Workshop

TOWARD A WORLD MINOR

Niall Jones

Jul 22 - Jul 26, 2024

Photo of books and images being arranged on the ground in a dark lighting. Photo by Ricky Yanas.
Category: Workshop

Talk Your Shit

Ogemdi Ude

Jul 22 - Jul 26, 2024

Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned Black femme, is wearing a puffy purple dress in a room surrounded by colorful balloons and LED floor lights. Her mouth is open with her head tilted up and one leg is raised with the other planted on the floor. Her hands are at her sides. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Graphic with text over an image. Photo from K.J. Holmes MELT workshop. Dancers move and improvise in different areas. In the foreground two dancers practice contact improvisation. One dancer sits on the ground leaning on another dancer, Movement Research intern Clara Kim who is posed in a downward dog position. Text reads, Summer 2024 MELT, July 8-24, In-Person Workshops
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MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. These workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to build a movement practice with creativity, somatics, and reflection with our amazing line up of MELT!

Movement Research Performance Journal

Issue #60

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Critical Correspondence

Fruits of Our Labor: a conversation between Catherine Cabeen and Tatiana Borchetta

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Guest editor Leah Wilks and Annie Dwyer are photographed planning Experiential Anatomy Workshop from the outside of a barred window. Photo credit to Em Pike.

Critical Correspondence

Don’t Miss It: a conversation between Annie Dwyer and Sherone Price