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| Melanie George (photo by JD Urban) |
This bright, cool-toned photo features Melanie George in the foreground and a blurry white door that’s ajar in the background. Melanie is a black woman with brown skin and curly hair and is pictured from the chest up. She turns slightly to the left and stares into the camera with a playful, reserved smile. She wore bright red lipstick and nail polish, and her fingertips lightly touched her sternum. Melanie wore a long-sleeved jumper that zipped up the center, with a white base and a lively botanical print. The print consists of a variety of solid-color shapes—red, silver, navy and burgundy—each with elongated lines emanating from a central point. She wore thin metal hexagonal earrings that hung an inch below her earlobes.
listen Melanie George: The art of coming back in my body and soul podcast here.
Among other things. Melanie appears in documentary Rooted: A Jazz Dance Journey and a contributing scholar Jazz Dance: A History of Roots and Branches, and Jazz Dance with Roots: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century. Melanie is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Rutgers University and has served as a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, and The Juilliard School. In 2021, she was named dance magazine30+, 30+, is the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award from the National Dance Education Organization. She is a performer/dramatist
