92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) presents the World Premiere of Jodi Melnick and Sara Mearns: Superbloom (Dancing Into Choreographic Forms) on Friday, March 27, 2026 at 7PM and Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 7PM. The performance is also streaming for 72 hours, beginning at 12PM on Sunday, March 29. Tickets start at $45 and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/superbloom-dancing-into-choreographic-forms/.

Choreographer Jodi Melnick and New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns join forces to offer a singularly unique evening of dance that overlaps and disrupts the past and present, continuing and celebrating their decade-long collaboration. At the heart of Superbloom (Dancing Into Choreographic Forms) is a work for five dancers, featuring Melnick, Mearns, Amanda Kmett’Pendry, Cat Kirk, and Tamisha Guy, set to a new score by James Lo, with set design by John Monti. 

Melnick, a visionary of the post-modern movement, and Mearns, whose artistry brings new dimension to the works, also explore the history of dance created by women at 92NY as they look into the archives of foundational voices in modern dance, such as Anna Sokolow, and the groundbreaking female choreographers Melnick has intersected with in her dancing life– Sara Rudner, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Susan Rethorst, Vicky Shick, Irene Hultman, among other illustrious female artists. The program includes an excerpted solo from Sokolow’s Steps of Silence and Lyric Suite. Melnick experiments with her own work, the phenomena of movement, transmission, and memory, weaving together her experiences with these iconic women and her decade-long dancing relationship with Mearns, creating a captivating new assemblage.