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☀️ Mentors, Mentees, and Morals in Motion! ☀️This summer has been defined by movement. We’ve been teaching, collaboratin...
09/07/2026

☀️ Mentors, Mentees, and Morals in Motion! ☀️

This summer has been defined by movement. We’ve been teaching, collaborating, celebrating, and leaning into the beauty of connection, from witnessing the wonderful mentorship between Zvi Gotheiner and Sameena in Vienna, to diving into the ‘Morals in Motion’ project with the Struwwelpeter Museum in Frankfurt. From Mentee gatherings to new adventures, we’ve been making the most of every sunny moment.

Here is a look back at our summer highlights 📸💫

🪽 Swan's Lake workshop 🪽We were lucky enough to have dancers from across the MeenMoves universe: Marymount students, for...
06/02/2026

🪽 Swan's Lake workshop 🪽

We were lucky enough to have dancers from across the MeenMoves universe: Marymount students, former MeenMoves Mentees, company dancers, friends, and supporters. So many corners of the MeenMoves community came together to create, connect, and move together!

Thank you to everyone who joined us. We were so lucky to have you!

[MORE INFO ABOUT THIS NEW WORK COMING SOON]

💜 Our 4th annual International Women's Day of Dance was everything... our best year yet! THANK YOU from the bottom of ou...
03/15/2026

💜 Our 4th annual International Women's Day of Dance was everything... our best year yet! THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who made this magical day happen:

JERSEY CITY ARTS AND CULTURE TRUST FUND ()
Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs ()
DanceNJ ()

Mark Trumbo - technical director
Sarah Timberlake () - stage manager & MeenMoves costume designer
Lillie Martin () - sound operator
Karma Chuki () - livestreamer
Sonam Dekar-Ahhi () - photographer
Paige Barnett Kulbeth () - behind the scenes

The Choreographers! Gayathri Pratha (), Cat Mills (), Melis Yesiller (), Sophie Nielson (.n), Kelly Guerrero (@), and MeenMoves Mentees Tessa & Gracie 🙌

The Performers! 🙌

Keara Gonzalez - host

Audience/workshop participants

+ ALL the women out there!!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!! 💜

We still need your support, head to MeenMoves.com to donate and keep this going!

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More photos to come!

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸Meet the Woman behind it all, Sameena Mitta!Sameena is Artistic Director of dance-theater company ...
03/05/2026

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸

Meet the Woman behind it all, Sameena Mitta!

Sameena is Artistic Director of dance-theater company and its outreach program MadHops. Mitta was a 2022/23 Artist in Residence at 92NY Harkness Dance Center, an NJPAC Choreography Fellow, and received a 2023 Choreographic Fellowship award from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has presented works at Little Island, 92NY, NJPAC, BAM Fisher, Americas Society, Ailey Studio Theatre, Martha Graham Theatre, Judson Church and many other venues around NYC and around the world. Mitta has produced live events including International Women’s Day of Dance and co-produced international digital events with 1014 Space for Ideas. Mitta recently completed an intergenerational dance film Bilateral Quadrennium and continues work on a 10-year site-specific dance film project Struwwelpeter Project. Mitta earned with distinction the Cecchetti Society’s Diploma and a MA in Dance Creation from Université du Québec à Montréal focusing on Movement Intervention for South Asian survivors of domestic violence. Under Mitta’s artistic direction, MeenMoves explores questions of identity, focusing on the unique perspectives of those who check “none-of-the-above”, to create socially relevant, quirky, highly-technical dance-theater works for stage and film. Mitta advocates for diversity in dance and has sat on multiple dance juries for granting agencies in Canada and the USA. Mitta is mentor to the Recanati-Kaplan scholars in dance, the Harkness Dance Center Artistic Advisor, and she is on faculty at the Limón Institute and 92NY.

Join us in celebrating international women dancers & choreographers!
🗓 THIS SUNDAY, March 8
📍 Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City
⏰ 2 PM
💛 FREE & open to all

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸Meet Melis Yeşiller ()!Melis Yeşiller is a Turkish dancer and choreographer based in New York City....
03/04/2026

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸

Meet Melis Yeşiller ()!

Melis Yeşiller is a Turkish dancer and choreographer based in New York City. She is preparing to graduate from the choreography program at the Martha Graham School and holds a BFA in Classical Ballet and Modern Dance from Istanbul University State Conservatory. Her latest choreography, The Curse, was presented through Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, exploring the state of mind of Medusa from Greek mythology. Prior to this, she created Threads of the Wild, a work investigating ecological imbalance and the absence of wolves within an ecosystem, which premiered at Court Square Theatre for the International Human Rights Art Festival in 2025. She also presented Ünzile, a duet addressing child marriages through the fractured relationship between a woman and her younger self. Earlier works include Nysa, examining order and chaos, and Niobe, inspired by Greek myth and focused on grief and transformation. Her early work Camelia was showcased at the Martha Graham Studio Theater. Melis has performed in Carousel of Dreams for Dior’s Saks Fifth Avenue Winter Window Reveal and previously danced with the Mercan Selçuk Dance Company and the Mersin State Opera and Ballet.

Join us in celebrating international women dancers & choreographers!
🗓 THIS SUNDAY, March 8
📍 Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City
⏰ 2 PM
💛 FREE & open to all

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸Meet Cat Mills ()!"I am an experimental choreographer exploring the mystery of the unknown, superna...
03/04/2026

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸

Meet Cat Mills ()!

"I am an experimental choreographer exploring the mystery of the unknown, supernatural worlds, and historical secrets. My work reframes time, space, place, energy, and objects through haunting or eerie imagery. I have explored these ideas in a dance film I directed and choreographed in 2025, titled B.I., H.6., which was crucial to my experimentation of technology, site, and movement. This film was selected to present at the ScreenPLAY dance film festival. Another work, entitled However Indeed Presently, was shown at the Great Hall Theater in 2024. This collaborative dance was invited to be presented at the Honors Day Showing at Marymount Manhattan College. Re-Know, which premiered in 2023, was selected to be presented at the Works In Progress showcase at the Great Hall Theater. Along with my own creative practice, I have implemented my voice in dance works by Stephanie Troyak, Raja Feather Kelly, and Dolly Sfeir."

Join us in celebrating international women dancers & choreographers!
🗓 THIS SUNDAY, March 8
📍 Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City
⏰ 2 PM
💛 FREE & open to all

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸Meet Kelly Guerrero ()!Kelly Guerrero is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator. She holds...
03/03/2026

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸

Meet Kelly Guerrero ()!

Kelly Guerrero is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator. She holds a BFA in Dance and Minor in Business from Montclair State University, where she received a Choreographic Excellence award. Her work has been presented in various concerts in Connecticut, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York. During her studies, she had the privilege of dancing in works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Jessica DiMauro Marks, Martha Graham, Mark Harootian, Larry Keigwin, Fredrick Earl Mosley, Helen Pickett, and Janice Rosario. She has also performed work by Charles Weidman as a guest artist with Nacre Dance Group. Kelly is currently a resident artist with ARTS By The People, and dances with The Moving Architects and H.T. Chen & Dancers. Additionally, she serves as the Managing Director of Dance New Jersey, a service organization advocating for dance and dance education in the state.

Join us in celebrating international women dancers & choreographers!
🗓 THIS SUNDAY, March 8
📍 Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City
⏰ 2 PM
💛 FREE & open to all

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🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸Meet Sophia Nielson (.n)!Sophia Nielsen is a dancer, choreographer, and scientist whose work is gro...
03/02/2026

🌸IWDoD '26 HIGHLIGHT🌸

Meet Sophia Nielson (.n)!
Sophia Nielsen is a dancer, choreographer, and scientist whose work is grounded in humanity. She's curious about the hard feelings—loss, betrayal, grief, rage—and the more joyful ones—play, curiosity, belonging—but especially the happy-sad, difficult-to-articulate emotional intersections between them. Sophia will graduate from New York University this spring with a BFA in Dance and a secondary major in Biology. She has performed works by Kayla Farrish, Yasmeen Godder, Seán Curran, Eléonore Valère-Lachky, Lorena Nogal, and Sebastian Garcia Ferro, and has served as rehearsal assistant for Baye & Asa. She has choreographed seven pieces, most recently the playful yet serious Sketches 1–7, which premiered at the Jack Crystal Theater this fall. Her nearly four years of research in computational cognitive neuroscience and developmental genetics at NYU inform the interdisciplinary, creative, and evolving lens through which she approaches dance.

Join us in celebrating international women dancers & choreographers!
🗓 THIS SUNDAY, March 8
📍 Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City
⏰ 2 PM
💛 FREE & open to all

🌸 International Women’s Day of Dance ’26🌸 Saturday, March 8 at 2pm 🌸 “Doors Open” & Pre-Show at 1:45 PM🌸 FREE🌸 Riverview...
02/03/2026

🌸 International Women’s Day of Dance ’26
🌸 Saturday, March 8 at 2pm 
🌸 “Doors Open” & Pre-Show at 1:45 PM
🌸 FREE
🌸 Riverview–Fisk Park, Jersey City

MeenMoves is proud to present the 4th annual International Women’s Day of Dance! Join us near the fountain at Riverview–Fisk Park as we celebrate international women choreographers through live dance performances.

Featuring works by:

MeenMoves ()
Kelly Guerrero ()
Gayathri Pratha ()
Melis Yeşiller ()
Cat Mills ()
Sophia Nielson (sophh.n)
Tessa & Gracie, MeenMoves Mentees

The event will also include a short dance workshop for all ages and abilities!

*This event will take place rain, snow, or shine and is wheelchair-accessible. For sign language interpretation or any other needs, please email [email protected] at least 2 weeks in advance.

**Live-stream available on www.meenmoves.com and on the Instagram.

This event is supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund. This program is made possible from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive, & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MEENMOVES! And what a year it's been ☁️ See you all soon in 2026!
12/30/2025

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MEENMOVES! And what a year it's been ☁️ See you all soon in 2026!

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