Melinda Jean Myers is a choreographer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist whose creative research centers on the intersection of movement, storytelling, and lived experience. Her work spans choreography, dance-theater, improvisation, and music composition, and is often rooted in autobiographical inquiry and collaborative processes. Myers explores themes of identity, care, grief, humor, and memory, crafting performances that invite audiences into embodied reflection and emotional connection.

A former company member with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and a longtime ensemble artist with Lucky Plush Productions, Myers has developed a body of evening-length works—including the bough breaks, Unfinished Business (with Kurt Chiang), and Right Here—that foreground the integration of set choreography, improvisation, and text. Her practice engages with dance as both a rigorous physical language and a vehicle for social and emotional inquiry.

Myers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Iowa, where she creates research-based works in collaboration with students, integrating teaching, creative practice, and community engagement. Working across live and mediated platforms, Myers explores performance as a space where contradiction can be held, recognition can emerge, and meaning can be co-constructed.