Morning Classes

Happening throughout the week at various times of day, Morning Classes offer the opportunity to learn a Teaching Artist’s movement practices, investigations, and histories. This movement experience may include somatic practices, improvisation techniques, and movement phrase exercises. If dance experience is recommended, it will be indicated in the description of the class.

This Winter/Spring season, Morning Classes are taught by:

Check the calendar for a full listing of Morning Classes

Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Morning Classes

Happening throughout the week at various times of day, Morning Classes offer the opportunity to learn a Teaching Artist’s movement practices, investigations, and histories. This movement experience may include somatic practices, improvisation techniques, and movement phrase exercises. If dance experience is recommended, it will be indicated in the description of the class.

This Winter/Spring season, Morning Classes are taught by:

Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Morning Class: Morning Moving

Vicky Shick

Oct 3 - Dec 7, 2023

Photo of Vicky leaning on an exposed cinder block wall. She is in profile with one arm resting on the wall in front of her. She is wearing a blue button-down top. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Morning Class: Technique Laboratory

Joanna Kotze

Oct 17 - Oct 26, 2023

Photo of Joanna Kotze teaching dancers in a large studio. She has brown hair in a messy bun and bangs. She is demonstrating a movement with her hands bending at the elbow and palms facing away from her face, fingers spread. The students are behind her paying attention and adjusting. Photo by Jhsumedia.
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Morning Class: Devising a Labyrinth

Fana Fraser

Fri, Oct 20 - Dec 22, 2023

A black and white image of Fana Fraser, a brown-skinned Trinbagonian person, crouched on a hardwood floor with a dark curtain in the background. Fana has her right hand on the floor and her left hand covering one eye. Her right hand wears a turquoise ring on her ring finger and a lapis lazuli ring on her middle finger. Her left hand wears a turquoise ring on her ring finger and a sterling silver ring with two hearts on her middle finger. A crumpled pair of pants sits in the background. Photo by Tony Turner/BAM.
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Morning Class: Forget How to Dance

Ogemdi Ude

Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2023

Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks through her arm into the camera. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants Photo by Elyse Mertz.
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Morning Class

Nov 7 - Dec 21, 2023

A group of dancers walks through St. Marks Church during a class. The photo is taken from above. The floor is a blonde wood. Photo by Tori Lawrence.
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Morning Class: Childhood Experiments

Malcolm-x Betts

Tue, Feb 13 - Mar 12, 2024

Photo of Malcolm x-Betts in a performance. They wear a teal hoodie and pants set that has been painted with yellow and orange shapes. They stand balancing several long LED lamps on their shoulders. several hang to the ground. In the foreground an audience is watching. Photo by Michelle Y. Thompson
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Morning Class: Forget How to Dance

Ogemdi Ude

Thu, Feb 15 - Mar 14, 2024

Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks through her arm into the camera. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants Photo by Elyse Mertz.
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Morning Class: Vortex

Christopher Unpezverde Núñez

Fri, Mar 8 - May 31, 2024

Two dancers turn their backs to the camera while Christopher Unpezverde Núñez looks straight ahead. All three identify the solar plexus in their chests. An amber light bathes them. Photo by Maria Baranova.
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Morning Class

Jennifer Nugent

Mar 19 - May 9, 2024

A group of dancers walks through St. Marks Church during a class. The photo is taken from about. The floor is a blonde wood and lit by lights from above. Photo courtesy of the artists.
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Morning Class: Technique Laboratory

Joanna Kotze

Tue, Apr 16 - Apr 23, 2024

Photo of Joanna Kotze teaching dancers in a large studio. She has brown hair in a messy bun and bangs. She is demonstrating a movement with her hands bending at the elbow and palms facing away from her face, fingers spread. The students are behind her paying attention and adjusting. Photo by Jhsumedia.
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Spectrums of Strength: move my heart

Jasmine Hearn

Fri, May 10, 2024

A blue lit stage with Jasmine Hearn in a yellow dress and orange pants. They look up with their hand to their chest one arm bent and out. Photo courtesy of artist.
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Morning Class: today’s dance

Mariana Valencia

May 14 - Jun 27, 2024

A latina person in a red tee and black leggings wearing white shoes stands in a stepping stance arms in a side motion with fists. She is in a grey dance studio gaze downward and sideways. Photo by Jazzy Romero
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Morning Class: Morning Moving

Vicky Shick

May 28 - Jun 13, 2024

Photo of Vicky leaning on an exposed cinder block wall. She is in profile with one arm resting on the wall in front of her. She is wearing a blue button-down top. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Morning Class: A Spell for Utopia

luciana achugar

Fri, Jun 7 - Jun 28, 2024

An image from a performance with green lighting and with many costume pieces strewn across the white floor with one performer in the foreground covered by a green lit fabric. In the background diagonally across from is another performer, luciana achugar, kneeling naked on the ground with torso folded forward and crown of head touching the ground with a rounded spine. It looks like prayer or a space for ritual. Photo by Brian Rogers.
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Morning Class: Dancing

Jennifer Nugent

Sep 17 - Dec 19, 2024

A group of dancers walks through St. Marks Church during a class. The photo is taken from about. The floor is a blonde wood and lit by lights from above. Photo courtesy of the artists.
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Morning Class: Growing a Body like a Plant

luciana achugar

Thu, Sep 19 - Dec 5, 2024

Two light skinned dancers' upper bodies one in front of the other with arms stretched upwards intertwined as if they were vines. Front dancer is wearing a gold sequined leotard opened on the sides and back dancer is wearing a lace navy blue bra. Their faces are not seen but we can tell from seeing part of their heads and hair that they are both tilting back. There is tension in their arms as if they had gotten their arms tied up with one another. Photo by Scott Shaw.
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Morning Class: Practicing Emergence(y)

Levi Gonzalez

Fri, Sep 27 - Oct 25, 2024

The torsos of two light-skinned males with dark hair and heads bowed are leaning against one another in front of a blurred grey background. One, in a black shirt, is pressing down on the other's shoulders. The other, in a blue shirt, is pressing both hands into the other's chest. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Morning Class: Morning Dancing

Jodi Melnick

Tue, Oct 1 - Oct 29, 2024

Jodi Melnick and another performer in motion. Their hands on their heads and leaning foward the left with their chest up over a black background. Image by Kate Hawkins.
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Morning Class: Morning Physicality

Vicky Shick

Thu, Oct 10 - Oct 31, 2024

Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Morning Dance Class

Gerald Casel

Fri, Nov 1 - Nov 22, 2024

A brown-skinned Filipino man, Gerald wears a blue t-shirt and shorts and dances in front of a blue sky and grey fence. Photo by Crystal Birns
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Morning Class: Forget How to Dance

Ogemdi Ude

Nov 5 - Dec 13, 2024

Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks swings her leg through the air while leaning back. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants. Photo by Elyse Mertz
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Morning Class

luciana achugar

Mar 3 - Jun 13, 2025

An image from a performance with green lighting and with many costume pieces strewn across the white floor with one performer in the foreground covered by a green lit fabric. In the background diagonally across from is another performer, luciana achugar, kneeling naked on the ground with torso folded forward and crown of head touching the ground with a rounded spine. It looks like prayer or a space for ritual. Photo by Brian Rogers.
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Morning Class

Jennifer Nugent

Mar 4 - Mar 27, 2025

Jennifer a white woman with a black bandana wearing red pants and a red tank top is smiling large / laughing and gathered with a group of MELT participants at St. Marks Church in the Bowery. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Morning Class

Paul Singh

Apr 8 - May 2, 2025

Photo by Hope Youngblood. Paul is side-bending his body to the right, enough to allow his spine to send his right elbow and focus skyward. He does this while wearing a long-sleeved light green shirt and dark pants.
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Morning Class

Christopher Unpezverde Núñez

Thu, Apr 10 - May 8, 2025

Two dancers turn their backs to the camera while Christopher Unpezverde Núñez looks straight ahead. All three identify the solar plexus in their chests. An amber light bathes them. Photo by Maria Baranova.
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Morning Class

Jon Kinzel

Mon, Apr 14 - May 5, 2025

A photo of two dancers. One dancer carries the other over their shoulder. The second dancer places one hand on his partner's waist for support, their legs are bent. Photo by Paula Court .
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Morning Class

Vicky Shick

Thu, May 15 - May 22, 2025

Dancers lay down on the hardwood floor at Judson Memorial Church with their heads facing toward the center. 2024 Summer MELT with Vicky Schick. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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Morning Class

Gerald Casel

Fri, May 16 - May 30, 2025

A brown-skinned Filipino man, Gerald wears a blue t-shirt and shorts and dances in front of a blue sky and grey fence. Photo by Crystal Birns
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Morning Class

Ogemdi Ude

May 27 - Jun 5, 2025

Dark skinned Black woman with a 4c puff of hair looks swings her leg through the air while leaning back. She is wearing a purple graffitied shirt and green pants. Photo by Elyse Mertz
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Morning Class – CLASSCLASSCLASS

AUNTS

Jun 10 - Jun 19, 2025

AUNTS logo. A illustration of a cliplight next to the word AUNTS. By Liliana Dirks-Goodman; followed by a collage of four teachers: Jonathan Gonzalez photo by Rudy Gerson, Jessi Cook photo provided by artist, Leslie Cuyjet photo by Sara Fox, and jess pretty photo by Niall Jones.
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Morning Class

Wendell Gray II

Mon, Sep 29 - Dec 1, 2025

A black man stare into the camera with his right arm crossed over the left. The top of his head leans towards his left. Photo by Whitney Browne
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Morning Class

Shelley Senter

Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2025

A woman wearing grey shirt and grey pants draped over a sofa, head hanging upside down as if about to fall. Photo by Bougere.
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Morning Class

Gerald Casel

Fri, Oct 3 - Oct 31, 2025

A brown-skinned Filipino man, Gerald wears a blue t-shirt and shorts and dances in front of a blue sky and grey fence. Photo by Crystal Birns
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Morning Class

Vicky Shick

Tue, Oct 7 - Nov 18, 2025

A photo from Vicky Shick's workshop for MELT 2023. Dancers move close to each other. In the center a dancer wearing purple pants stands with knees bent. One hand rests on their upper thigh while their torso spirals following the movement with their other arm forming a curve. Their short orange hair whips around their face. Photo by Rachel Keane
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Morning Class

Stacy Matthew Spence

Thu, Oct 9 - Oct 16, 2025

Stacy Spence is a black man alone in dance gesturing to the side as his gaze looks down to the side toward camera while in motion. He is wearing an ochre knit short sleeved shirt that buttons up the front, with ochre loose pants. Photo by Elyssa Goodman
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Morning Class

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Fri, Oct 10 - Dec 5, 2025

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, a tall black man leaps in the air wearing black striped pants and a white shirt. His left leg is extended down toward the white floor while his right leg reaches toward the back corner of the room, which has a wall of windows with frosted glass. Photo by Whitney Browne.
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Morning Class

Paul Singh

Thu, Oct 23 - Nov 13, 2025

Paul, on the right in the burgundy shirt, holds the arm of Jack Blackmon, on the left, while they look directly at each other. Photo by David Gonsier.
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Morning Class

Jennifer Nugent

Dec 2 - Dec 18, 2025

a white woman with a shaved head, wearing blue sweatpants and a black and gray shirt, moves through phrase material, leaning into right hip, left leg lifted and bent, elbows bent while the right swings forward and the left arm swings back. Photo by Rosa Wolff.
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Morning Class

nia love

Fri, Dec 12 - Dec 19, 2025

A photo of Nia Love seated with her arms spread wide and one leg lifted. Photo by Grant Halverson.

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