Melanie George is a dance educator, choreographer, and scholar.  She is the founder and director of Jazz Is… Dance Project and JazzDanceDirect.com, and Dramaturg and Audience Educator at Lumberyard (formerly American Dance Institute). As an institutional and freelance dramaturg, she works closely with internationally recognized contemporary performing artists in the incubation of new works for the stage. For Lumberyard, she has contributed to projects by Susan Marshall & Company, Kimberly Bartosik, Raja Feather Kelly, David Dorfman Dance, Bebe Miller, and Urban Bush Women among others. As a freelance dramaturg and performance coach, she has worked with Morgan Thorson, Alice Sheppard/Kinetic Light, and Caleb Teicher & Company. 

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