About Melissa Toogood
Stager , Choreographic Advisor for Ocean (an arrangement)
Melissa Toogood is a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) winning Performer. She was a member of Merce Cunningham's final Company, has taught Cunningham Technique internationally since 2007, is a 2013 & 2015 Merce Cunningham fellow, and is an official Stager for the Merce Cunningham Trust. Melissa is both Dancer and Rehearsal Director for Pam Tanowitz Dance. She has performed with Abraham.In.Motion, Kimberly Bartosik, Wally Cardona, Michelle Dorrance, Jodi Melnick, Rashaun Mitchell, Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, the Stephen Petronio Company, Sally Silvers, The Bang Group:Tap Lab, Christopher Williams, Bill Young and many others. Her own work has been commissioned by the Boston Ballet, New York Theater Ballet and the Vail Dance Festival. She has been on faculty at Bard College, Barnard College, New York Theater Ballet School and Dance New Amsterdam. Toogood has staged Merce's work on the Washington Ballet, Stephen Petronio Company, New World School of the Arts, the Vail Dance Festival, Bard College, Seet Dance, and on Sydney Dance Company's Pre-professional year where she is currently teaching regularly. Melissa performed in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final performances of Ocean in 2009.