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2024 Summer MELT

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What is Summer MELT?

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

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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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Virtual workshop with Petra Kuppers takes place in EDT
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Safety and Wellness Protocol

Masks will be optional but encouraged for all workshops. MR can provide KN95 masks to those who would like to remain masked for the duration of the workshop.
If you are no longer able to attend your workshop due to illness, for the safety of yourself and others please email programs@movementresearch.org ASAP.

Registration Guidelines:

Go to the UPCOMING EVENTS section and click on your favorite Workshop.
Carefully read the Workshop description and click >>REGISTER HERE<<
Select the Workshop(s) desired in the new link and complete your order. You will receive an email confirmation with details.
All classes are in-person and take place EDT.

Please note all programming is subject to change. For updates stay tuned to our Social Media and Sign up for our >>NEWSLETTER<<.

Week 1: July 8-12

Neil Greenberg | Moving & Dancing: Some Strategies

Shelley Senter | Alexander Technique/A Critical Practice

Miguel Gutierrez | Making Work

Week 2: July 15- 19

Vicky Shick | Our Morning Physicality

K.J. Holmes | Improvisations: “What is my body doing when I am not conscious of it?”

Tere O’Connor | Moving Meaning

Week 3: July 22- 26

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd | Moving in the Morning

Ogemdi Ude | Talk Your Shit

Niall Jones | TOWARD A WORLD MINOR

Petra Kuppers | Planting (Disabled) Futures

Week 4: July 29-Aug 2

Jennifer Nugent | Dancing

mayfield brooks | Waves

luciana achugar | A Spell for Utopia

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2024 Summer MELT faculty

luciana achugar

luciana achugar

mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks

Performance Journal Co-Editor-in-Chief

Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg

Miguel Gutierrez

Miguel Gutierrez

K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes

Niall Jones

Niall Jones

Performance Journal Associate Editor

Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Jennifer Nugent

Jennifer Nugent

Tere O’Connor

Tere O’Connor

Shelley Senter

Shelley Senter

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

Ogemdi Ude

Ogemdi Ude

Vicky Shick

Vicky Shick

Upcoming events

Fast: medicinal movement practice for Black Artists

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

Jul 15 - Jul 19, 2024

Sage Ni'Ja Whitson, a dark skinned Black transgender artist balances on one leg with arms outstretched. They are in a low lit room. Photo by Scott Shaw.

Improvisations: “What is my body doing when I am not conscious of it?”

K.J. Holmes

Jul 15 - Jul 19, 2024

Photo of a dancer leaping and placing her hand on a wall. The dancer creates a large shadow on the wall and the image is in black and white. Photo by Green Deng.

Moving Meaning

Tere O'Connor

Jul 15 - Jul 19, 2024

Three men lying on their backs in a flower shape with legs splayed across their bodies. Photo by Paula Court

Our Morning Physicality

Vicky Shick

Jul 15 - Jul 19, 2024

Photo of Vicky Shick teaching for Summer MELT at the Judson Church. She stands in front of the class while the dancers follow her. Her body weight is shifted on one leg while both her legs are bent. She is in a slightly crouched position, her torso curves to one side and her arm comes up with a bend at the elbow. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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.

Planting (Disabled) Futures

Petra Kuppers

Jul 22 - Jul 26, 2024

A desert plant in bloom: tender but tough green leaves hold multiple elongated flowers: yellow, orange, red, pointing outward like parrot beaks, openings at the end, fleshy, thick. Some of the flowers are stripped of their petals, and the thin bundle of stamen are all that remain. Is this a wound? Is this how the flower prepares its seed? Photo by Petra Kuppers.

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.

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.

A Spell for Utopia

luciana achugar

Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024

A photo of luciana in performance of PUROTEATRO. She is bent over with her body uncovered and her head resting on the floor. there are piles of clothing all around and a green wall behind her. In the foreground there is a large pile with a green fabric draped over it. Photo by Brian Rogers.

Dancing

Jennifer Nugent

Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024

An action shot of Jennifer Nugent in a bright space. A light spotlights behind her as she holds her arm out and balances on one foot. She wears a pink top and grey striped pants.

Waves

mayfield brooks

Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024

Brown skinned person with short black kinky hair, moving sideways in the ocean, engulfed by waves. Photo by Nir Arieli

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