2025 Summer MELT with Jordan Demitrius Lloyd; several dancers in a studio.

Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Category: Events

GPS Chats: Reports from the Field

Yanira Castro

Tue, Jun 9, 2026

Yanira is against a black background. Her hands are raised above her head, palms forward. She looks down in profile. Photo by Simon Courchel.
Category: Events

Playing the Hits: Dancing with the Stars!

Okwui Okpokwasili, Kim Brandt

Sun, Jun 14, 2026

Okwui Okpokwasili reads from a brightly lit paper in a darkened room. She is a Nigerian woman wearing a purple top. Photo by Ian Douglas.
Category: Events

Open Performance | Jun 16, 2026

Tue, Jun 16, 2026

A photo of an Open Performance artist standing in a deep back bend reaching towards the onlooking audience. Photo by Rachel Keane

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Featured

Performance of TERRANEA at Hammana Artist House (Lebanon 2022) with Leila Awadallah, Natasha Karam, and Andrea Fahed - image by Zaynab Mourad
Critical Correspondence

echoes that rumble through a rooted vessel: on Palestine, Lebanon, and the ground between us, with Noora Baker, Natasha Karam, and Leila Awadallah

This conversation between Noora Baker, Natasha Karam and Leila Awadallah took place on January 27th, 2026 in a ‘gathering’ that defied multiple occupations and imperial and settler

Critical Correspondence

Evoking Memory: A Conversation between Jasmine Hearn and Wanjiru Kamuyu

Initiated by Germaine Ingram, this conversation between Jasmine Hern and Wanjiru Kamuyu is featured in Critical Correspondence in June 2026

Type of postWorkshop & Events
Two women side by side in performance respond to each other as if electrical sparks passed between them. Photo by Ian Douglas.

2026 Summer MELT

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter.

Events
Yanira is against a black background. Her hands are raised above her head, palms forward. She looks down in profile. Photo by Simon Courchel.

GPS Chats: Reports from the Field