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2026 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. Early registration opens Mon, March 16 for MR FRIENDS and Mon. March 23 to the general public!!

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Summer MELT 2026
ID: Summer MELT 2026

Past events

Category: Workshop

Practice/Make

Gwen Welliver

Jan 12 - Jan 16, 2026

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

Impro-crisis

Antonio Ramos

Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2026

Antonio sits in a kiddie pool naked with a crown of painted dildos on his head, he holds a microphone to his mouth. Photo by Ian Douglas.
Category: Workshop

Choreographic Mindset

Juliana F. May

Jan 26 - Jan 30, 2026

Juliana F May's class; a dancer with their arms out in T shape and one's back toward the lens, and another crouched behind. Photo by Amelia Golden
Category: Workshop

Making & Breaking It: […/+*^%€£¥$&@!!!!^^^]: Part 2

Moriah Evans

Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2026

Remains performance photo; performers in various positions on a stage and risers, 2 sit at a table with papers in front of them. Photo by Rachel Papo.
Category: Workshop

etc. in continuum

Sarah Michelson

Jan 26 - Jan 30, 2026

Image of handwritten text - “OK Dance” in large text’ followed by “making together” in smaller text. Image by the artist.
Category: Workshop

Gravity, Timing, and Imagination: Contact Improvisation for Focused Partnering

Paul Singh

Jan 26 - Jan 30, 2026

Paul Singh is catching Jack Blackmon as their shared weights collapses. Paul wears a long sleeve burgundy shirt, Jack is in a white t-shirt. Photo by David Gonsier.
Category: Workshop

Embodiment and Psychogeography

Jonathan González

Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2026

Image by artist; work entitled, B.A.S.E.; A collage of different photos layered together.
Category: Workshop

Ecosomatic practices for living and dying with a damaged earth

Olive Bieringa

Jan 19 - Jan 23, 2026

3 people lying down with rocks on their chest. Photo by Marta Różańska.
Category: Workshop

Spirals

Irene Dowd

Jan 12 - Jan 16, 2026

An image of a dancer, Daphne Fernburger, lying on her back and holding her foot with opposite hand. A single image from video of Spirals filmed by Rafe Scobey-Thal.
Category: Workshop

Queer Dance at the End of Days: Elaboration as Making Meaning

Thomas F. DeFrantz

Jan 12 - Jan 16, 2026

A man with dreadlocks in the center of a group of onlookers holds his arms up as he leans back and another man holds his feet. Photo courtesy the artist.
Category: Workshop

Dance in the continuous struggle: 3 days, 6 texts, many dances.

André Lepecki

Jan 12 - Jan 16, 2026

A cement wall filled with posters with different dimensions and colors, some containing words in Portuguese others in English, all related to art as resistance, collective life, trans & queer activism, and decolonial struggle.
Category: Workshop

Embodied Photography: Sensing through the lens

Rachel Keane

Jul 7 - Jul 10, 2025

Rachel is dancing in front of a bright blue background with a globe. Their face and body is captured sharply, but they leave a trail of motion behind them. Self Portrait by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

S L O W N E S S: dancing with gravity, buoyancy and viscosity

mayfield brooks

Jul 28 - Aug 1, 2025

Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima. A photo of a person's exposed dark brown back on the deck of a boat laying in child's post, they wear a light green sheet and their long black and blonde braids drape over them.
Category: Workshop

Klein Technique™ – Watching Ourselves Move While We Move

Barbara Mahler

Jul 14 - Jul 18, 2025

Teaching photo of Barbara Mahler from the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts. Barbara helping a student during class; she gently places her hand on the small of the student's back and lower spine, the student brings their chin to chest.
Category: Workshop

Alexander Technique/A Critical Practice

Shelley Senter

Jul 28 - Aug 1, 2025

2024, 7/12: Summer MELT, Shelley Senter: Shelley mid air with her hands behind her back, students watch her in action. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

What is my body doing when I am not conscious of it? Material and principles of Steve Paxton

K.J. Holmes

Jul 21 - Jul 25, 2025

Steve Paxton in a white shirt, dances in a dark room.
Category: Workshop

Meeting the Movement

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Jul 28 - Aug 1, 2025

A tall man in a black hoodie and yellow bandana stands in front of a white board with small sheets of paper taped to it; His hand grazes his mouth as h looks out into a dance studio. Photo by Randy Karels.
Category: Workshop

Queering Cunningham / Queering Form and Process: Performance Making Strategies

Neil Greenberg

Jul 21 - Jul 25, 2025

12 adult dancers are spread across the wooden floor of St. Mark's Church, with three notebooks lying on the floor as well. The dancer are white, brown, and Asian, some masculine-presenting and some feminine-presenting. Two dancers are in the midst of movement on the floor, the remainder of the dancers are in the midst of movement whilst standing. No two dancers are alike. Photo by Ashley. a friend of Movement Research.
Category: Workshop

dancing

Jennifer Nugent

Jul 21 - Jul 25, 2025

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.
Category: Workshop

The Pleasure Practice: A Spell for Utopia

luciana achugar

Jul 14 - Jul 18, 2025

During a workshop in the Courtyard Studio. luciana teaching with hair flying upwards hiding face and arms and hands open to sides. Some students on the floor with arms up, others upright in movement. Photo by Rachel Keane
Category: Workshop

Finding our Dancing Body

Vicky Shick

Jul 14 - Jul 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
Category: Workshop

MAKING our way

Jeanine Durning

Jul 7 - Jul 11, 2025

Full body image of Jeanine in black clothing with multi-color socks, books at her feet, and worn out Van sneakers, in the midst of laying down while holding onto the edge a long folding table with the word
Category: Workshop

Talk Your Shit

Ogemdi Ude

Jul 7 - Jul 11, 2025

Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned Black femme is wearing a white button down dress, her hair in long twists; She is on her knees and looking towards a fluffy white couch in a room full of people. Photo by Cherlynn Tsushima courtesy of The Kitchen.
Category: Workshop

Horizons

Irene Dowd

Jul 7 - Jul 11, 2025

A male dancer in a grey leotard balances on one leg with one arm extended back. This is a screenshot from the video Spirals, provided by the Artist.
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 bent and arm reaching behind them. Photo by Rauschenberg Foundation
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

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

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

Dancing Around Race – Cultivating Racial Equity and Absolute Belonging

Gerald Casel

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

White text on a black background. text reads, How does white supremacy show up in your body? Image courtesy of the artist.
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

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

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

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.
Category: Workshop

Spirals: A Warm-up for the Entire Body

Irene Dowd

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

Screen capture from video of Spirals, filmed in 2016: Choreographer Irene Dowd, performer Daphne Fernberger, videographer Rafe Scobey-Thal.
Category: Workshop

Weight of Our Want

Jasmine Hearn

Jan 13 - Jan 17, 2025

A photo of Jasmine reaching behind them in lime green. They look toward the sky with their eyes closed smiling. Photo by Jakayla Monay.
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

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.
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.
Category: Workshop

A Spell for Utopia

luciana achugar

Jul 29 - Aug 2, 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.
Category: Workshop

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
Category: Workshop

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. Photo by Jim Coleman.
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

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

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
Category: Workshop

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.
Category: Workshop

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.
Category: Workshop

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.
Category: Workshop

Alexander Technique / A Critical Practice

Shelley Senter

Jul 8 - Jul 12, 2024

Photo of Shelly Senter teaching at MoMA. She stands in the center while the student lay on their back in star position. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Category: Workshop

Making Work

Miguel Gutierrez

Jul 8 - Jul 12, 2024

A cis, Latinx man with short dark hair and a greying beard looks directly at the camera with a slight smile. He is wearing a pink shirt with yellow jellyfish print and is photographed against a yellow marbled background. Photo by Chloe Cusimano.
Category: Workshop

Moving & Dancing: Some Strategies

Neil Greenberg

Jul 8 - Jul 12, 2024

A dance studio filled with dancers wearing casual dance clothes, each in the midst of different actions and shapes. Neil, a white cis-man wearing loose sweat pants and a long sleeve shirt, is caught mid-step with hands in front of him in gesticulation. Photo courtesy of the artist
Category: Workshop

Let’s Move More Easily and Freely with The Feldenkrais Method®

Antonio Ramos

Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2024

Photo of Antonio Ramos wearing a cropped top with gold sleeves and a silver turtleneck. His chest is bare and his curly hair is flowing freely. He has his mouth slightly opened, arms spread out with yellow and red face makeup. The background is glittery. Photo by Ian Douglas.
Category: Workshop

Klein Technique™: Understanding how we Move, as we Move

Barbara Mahler

Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2024

Barbara Mahler guides a student during class. She is extending her arms towards the student while they are crouched on the flood in movement. Barbara is smiling wearing a patterned colorful top. The student wears a bright pink top. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

Horizons

Irene Dowd

Jan 22 - Jan 26, 2024

Photo of dancers moving at the Judson Church. Irene Dowd stands int he upper left corner hands on her hips watching the class. The dancers move on the floor creating spirals with their torsos in a unison phrase. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

Embodying change: Winter Alchemy

Daria Faïn

Jan 22 - Jan 26, 2024

Daria holds her index and middle finger together and looks at it. We see the back of her head, her hair in a low bun while she crouches in front of a bright yellow wall. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Category: Workshop

Blk Sonic Mvmnt Lab

André Zachery

Jan 15 - Jan 19, 2024

André Zachary smashing a television with a mallet. He wears a black suit and tie. In the background, an industrial setting with Brick walls and cement. Photo by Rachel Neville.
Category: Workshop

Movement & Healing

Ori Flomin

Jan 15 - Jan 19, 2024

Ori Flomin is in a warrior two position from Yoga practice. He is wearing light beige pants and a blue long sleeve shirt. In this position his right leg is bent to a 90 degree angle while his left leg is fully extended, his spine is vertical and his arms are extended away from each other parallel to the floor. He is standing outside in the park with trees in the background. Photo by Yasmeen Enahora.
Category: Workshop

Dancing A Part/Dancing Together

Angie Pittman

Jan 15 - Jan 19, 2024

Angie Pittman performing for Movement Research at the Judson Church. She is standing with her legs crossing and her torso twisting to one side. Her arms and gaze look towards her back leg. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

Movement – A Love Supreme

Jodi Melnick

Jan 22 - Jan 26, 2024

Photo of Jodi Melnick in performance. She balances on one leg, bending her other leg at the knee and raising it towards her torso. One arm is extended in front of her and the other reaches over her head. In the background a musician plays electric guitar with an amp behind them. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Category: Workshop

Improvisation Strategies

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2024

Ishmael Houston Jones stands with weight shifted into one hip with his gaze looking downwards. In the background a maximalist design with purple pink yellow and blue design. Ishmael wears a long sleeve orange top and a light colored pair of shorts. There is a small pink plastic purse hanging from his neck. Photo of Robbie Sweeney.
Category: Workshop

Ecosomatic Practice for living on a Damaged Earth

BodyCartography

Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2024

Photo of a person climbing and twisting their body around a tree branch. There is green foliage all around them and they wear a light blue outfit. Photo by Otto Ramstad
Category: Workshop

Crip Movement Lab

Elisabeth Motley, Kayla Hamilton

Jan 22 - Jan 25, 2024

A split black and white image of two disabled choreographers. On the left side, Kayla Hamilton, a Black woman with shoulder length locs, throws her head back and to her right with her arms reaching slightly out and down on the diagonal. Her legs are wide, and she lunges to the left. She is wearing a black long sleeve shirt with stripes in various directions. Behind her is the closed gate of a storefront. Photo by Travis Magee. On the right side, Elisabeth Motley, a white woman with shoulder length brown/black hair, rotates her arms inward and extends them out. Her right leg extends out to her side. She tilts her head up and to her left. Motley wears a striped button up short sleeve shirt and black pants. Behind her is an exit sign and a brick wall. Photo by Mr. Wattson.
Category: Workshop

Glitch Dance

Thomas F. DeFrantz

Jan 15 - Jan 19, 2024

Person in shadow almost imperceptible, with legs spread wide standing and leaning. Photo courtesy of the artist.

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