Melissa Melpignano

Melissa Melpignano is a dance scholar and practitioner. She works as an Assistant Professor and Director of Dance at The University of Texas at El Paso (USA). Her research investigates how dance and choreography inform our ideas of conflict and borders. She obtained a PhD in Culture & Performance from UCLA. Her scholarly work appears in The Drama Review, 50 Contemporary Choreographers, Dance Research Journal, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance, among others. She has a forthcoming monograph on issues of presence and ephemerality in 18th and 19th c. Italian ballet, and two book projects on dance and choreography in Palestine-Israel. She is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Research Award, the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for dance research, and the Rising Researcher award from the University of Texas.

---

Texty autora

Reviews 5. 7. 2024 – Melissa Melpignano

Zarhy’s Affect: Beyond the Binary of Ausencia and Presencia

Choreographer May Zarhy’s double bill directly tackles the theme of the 36th edition of Festival Danza Estate in Bergamo, Italy, which interrogates the roles presence and absence play in building spaces and relations in our time.