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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.

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2025 Winter MELT graphic. White text on a dark blue background. Text reads, Movement Research Winter 2025 MELT Jan 13 - 31 Registration opens: Oct 24.
ID: 2025 Winter MELT graphic. White text on a dark blue background. Text reads, Movement Research Winter 2025 MELT Jan 13 - 31 Registration opens: Oct 24.

Week 1: January 13-17

Spirals: A Warm-up for the entire body with Irene Dowd | 10AM-12PM

Ecosomatic Practices for living and dying with a damaged earth with Olive Bierenga | 11:30AM-1:30PM (Virtual)

Weight of Our Want with Jasmine Hearn | 1PM-3PM

Dancing Around Race – Cultivating Racial Equity and Absolute Belonging with Gerald Casel | 3:30PM-6PM

Week 2: January 20-24

Making & Breaking It with Moriah Evans | 10AM-12PM

Material for the Spine with Otto Ramstad | 11:30AM-1:30PM (Virtual)

Variations for your scene with Katy Pyle | 1PM-3PM

Embracing the Awkward with Ishmael Houston-Jones | 3:30PM-6PM

Week 3: January 27-31

Morning Lab with Gwen Welliver | 10AM-12PM

Awareness Constellations: The Feldenkrais Method® An exploration of Movement Pattering and Self-Perception with Jimena Paz | 1PM-3PM

Writing for Scenario/Writing for the love of dancing with Sara Shelton Mann | 1:30PM-3:30PM (Virtual)

MAKING our way with Jeanine Durning | 3:30PM-6PM

MELT faculty

Olive Bieringa

Olive Bieringa

Gerald Casel

Gerald Casel

Irene Dowd

Irene Dowd

Jeanine Durning

Jeanine Durning

Moriah Evans

Moriah Evans

Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Co Vice Chair

Sara Shelton Mann

Sara Shelton Mann

Jimena Paz

Jimena Paz

Katy Pyle

Katy Pyle

Otto Ramstad

Otto Ramstad

Gwen Welliver

Gwen Welliver

Upcoming events

Category: Workshop

Dancing Around Race – Cultivating Racial Equity and Absolute Belonging

Gerald Casel

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

A large class with dancers seen from the back holding the tops of their right foot with their left hands while their right arms gesture to the high diagonal. Image by Tim Russell.
Category: Workshop

Ecosomatic Practices for living and dying with a damaged earth

Olive Bieringa

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

Filipina woman with long gray smelling moss. Photo/Image by Maria Lothe.
Category: Workshop

Spirals: A Warm-up for the entire body

Irene Dowd

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

performer is lying on floor facing down, arms wide to sides on floor, one foot stepping across back of body close to the opposite hand, that knee pointing toward ceiling.
Category: Workshop

Weight of Our Want

Jasmine Hearn

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

Photo of performers with a green parachute. They lift it into the air as it bellows. The sky is grey and they are dressed in bright colors. Image courtesy of the artist and DiverseWorks.
Category: Workshop

Embracing the Awkward

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2025

Two male dancers wearing sneakers and white practice clothes with writing and drawings in black charcoal grapple on a grey floor. Photo by Hans Peter Ibaghino.
Category: Workshop

Making & Breaking It

Moriah Evans

Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2025

A photo of black trash bags on a sidewalk. They are lit by a street lamp. Photo courtesy the artist.
Category: Workshop

Material for the Spine

Otto Ramstad

Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2025

A man in a grey shirt and blue striped pants is laying on the floor on his side with both arms, head and leg reaching off the floor. Photo by Peter Raper.
Category: Workshop

Variations for your scene

Katy Pyle

Jan 20 - Jan 24, 2025

5 dancers are onstage in black and white costumes. In the foreground a dancer with stiff limbs is being carried upstage like a doll by another dancer. The dancers in the background pose stiffly with blank expressions. Photo by Yael Malka.
Category: Workshop

Awareness Constellations: The Feldenkrais Method® An exploration of Movement Patterning and Self-Perception

Jimena Paz

Jan 27 - Jan 31, 2025

A bright studio. A dancer lays on the floor legs bet and arm reaching behind them. Photo by Rauschenberg Foundation
Category: Workshop

MAKING our way

Jeanine Durning

Jan 27 - Jan 31, 2025

Jeanine in front of mauve colored velour curtain looking down toward a dangling microphone whose cord is wrapped around her neck while holding a stack of books in her left arm. Photo by Chris Cameron for MANCC.
Category: Workshop

Morning Lab

Gwen Welliver

Jan 27 - Jan 31, 2025

Two folding chairs are visible in an empty room with a black floor and white walls. The legs of a white woman are visible in the picture. Her legs are covered by loose black pants and her bare feet are propped on a folding chair. The other chair is further away, in the middle of the room.
Category: Workshop

Writing for Scenario/Writing for the love of dancing

Sara Shelton Mann

Jan 27 - Jan 31, 2025

A photo of items. A bouquet, 2 white bowls, and a piece of paper with writing. Photo courtesy of artist.

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