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Jodi Melnick and Sara Mearns: Superbloom (Dancing Into Choreographic Forms)

Dancers Jodi Melnick and Sara Mearns.

Mar 27–28, 2026
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States

Like the wildflowers that blanket deserts in a rash of rare color, Jodi Melnick’s Superbloom springs from decades in the studio with Twyla Tharp, Sara Rudner, Trisha Brown, Vicky Shick, and Susan Rethorst—a whole generation of New York dance Amazons “unrolling the movement ball of yarn into choreographic form,” says Melnick. With this headlong premiere for 92NY’s series “Women Move the World,” she has unrolled that ball with a younger generation of brilliant, capacious dancers, from New York City Ballet (Sara Mearns, in her 10th anniversary dancing with Melnick), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Tamisha Guy and Catherine Kirk), and Trisha Brown (Amanda Kmett Pendry). Superbloom begins with a fragment of the 92nd Street Y’s own history—Mearns giving herself over to the roiling expressionism of Anna Sokolow (“It’s like Pina!” Melnick exclaims). Then the ensemble and more immediate influences enter, yoking serenity to theatricality, quiet to chaos, and angst to voluptuous delight. —Laura Jacobs

On March 29, Superbloom is streaming at twelve P.M.