Jodi Melnick - Fall 2006

Jodi Melnick graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance. She has been a featured dancer with Twyla Tharp, and Irene Hultman. Currently, she performs and works with Susan Rethorst, Sara Rudner, and Vicky Shick, and over the past 13 years, has worked with NYC based freelance choreographers Tere O'connor, Dennis O'connor, Donna Uchizono, Yoshiko Chuma, and Yves Musard.

2002, she began working with Trisha Brown as an assistant director on Schubert's 'Winterriese', continues to re-stage the work, and has appeared as a guest performer in the Trisha Brown company.

As a teacher, Jodi has taught master classes, technique, and workshops throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Russia, and Asia. Her gift as a teacher has been to translate movement into a format accessible to all bodies and all disciplines.

Her choreography has been shown in NYC, Japan, Ireland, Estonia, and Russia. Her most recent work, spring 2003, a solo commissioned by Jenny Roche and Temple Bar Properties, Dublin. Ireland, and, September 2004, a duet for Roche and Nicola Curry, Belfast. This fall, 2005, Ms. Melnick will present her work at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC.

Fall 2003, Graz, Austria, Ms.Melnick was part of a new Opera based on David Lynch's 'Lost Highway', singing (mezzo soprano), again performed in Basel Switzerland, Spring 2004.

In 2001, she was honored with a Bessie award for sustained achievement in dance.