Jodi Melnick

Jodi Melnick is a NYC based choreographer, performer, and teacher. The profound expression of the dancing body and lucid performing instincts drive her creative process as the work is transformed through the phenomenon of dancing. Melnick danced in the Twyla Tharp Dance, Company (90’-94’,09’), collaborated with Trisha Brown, and continues creative collaborations with Sara Rudner, Maya Lee-Parritz, David Neumann, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Reiner, Donna Uchizono, Liz Roche, Jon Kinzel, John Jasperse, Sara Mearns, Taylor Stanely, Charles Atlas, Beth Gill, and Yoshiko Chuma.

Melnick’s work has been presented at the 92nY, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Little Island, Carvahlo Park Gallery, The Joyce Theater, City Center, the Kitchen, New York Live Arts, The Guggenheim Museum, Hudson Hall, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Spoleto Festival, Jacobs Pillow, The Dublin Dance Festival, Moats, Quarries, and Beaches, to name a few.

Honors include NYS Choreographers Initiative award (NYSCA/Danceforce), Doris Duke Impact Award, Guggenheim Fellow, Jerome Robbins New Essential Works Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two Bessie Awards, Gibney’s DIP Residency Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center 2 -year extended Life Grant, and Center for Ballet Arts Fellow.

Teaching has been part of Melnick’s artistic process for many years and currently teaches for Movement Research, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, and as a guest at Juilliard.