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Guest Artist Concert featuring Jodi Melnick

“all-electric future Near at hand”

Melnick says of the performance, “What does it mean to be so close? A dance for fourteen performers made up of detailed, intricately designed movement using rigorous choreographic and improvised structures. As individual narratives unfold and disappear, the work explores the intimate, immediate, and vulnerable experience of performing, and how depth and perception affect both dancer and viewer.”

Jodi Melnick is a New York City-based choreographer, performer, and teacher. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Jerome Robbins New Essential Works Grant (2010-2011), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2011 Grants to Artists Award winner, and has been honored with two Bessies (2001 and 2008). Her dances have been performed at the Joyce Theater and City Center, and she has had works commissioned and presented by The Kitchen (Fanfare, with set décor by Burt Barr), Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, OtherShore Dance Company, Jacob’s Pillow, The American Dance Festival, Barnard College, Bennington College, Dance Box, Kansai, Japan, and the opening of the 2011 Dublin Dance Festival in Ireland. Melnick has worked with noted dance artists such as Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and continues to perform with choreographers Sara Rudner, Vicky Shick, Jon Kinzel, John Jasperse, Liz Roche, and Susan Rethorst. Melnick currently teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University, NYU, the Experimental Theater Wing, and Trevor Day School. She holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase.

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