Jodi Melnick Melnick

Melnick is a NYC based choreographer, performer, and teacher. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance. Melnick is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of the Jerome Robbins New Essential Works Grant (2010-2011), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2011 Grants to Artists Award, and has been honored with two Bessies (2001 and 2008).

Her dances have been performed at the Joyce Theater and City Center in NYC and she has had works commissioned and presented by The Kitchen (Fanfare, with set décor by Burt Barr), Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, for OtherShore Dance Company, Jacob's Pillow, The American Dance Festival, Barnard College, Bennington College, Dance Box, Kansai, Japan, and opening the Dublin Dance Festival (2011) in Dublin, Ireland at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Melnick has worked with a vast array of 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 at Columbia University, NYU (in the Experimental Theater Wing), and Trevor Day School. SLC, 2013 -