Allegra Lillard

Director of Young Children’s Curriculum

Melissa Briggs is a choreographer and dance educator with over 25 years of experience, in New York City, across New England, and in New Mexico. Melissa’s choreography has been presented at venues throughout the New York metropolitan area, in Mexico, and here, both in Albuquerque (UNM, N4th Theater) and Santa Fe (CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Railyard Performance Space, various site specific locations). She is fascinated by the intersection of space, design, and storytelling that occurs in site-specific performance work; recent projects were created for parking lots and churches.

Melissa is currently on faculty at NDI New Mexico, YogaSource, and UNM, where she teaches Choreography, Improvisation and Modern/Contemporary technique. She is a graduate of New York University/Tisch School of the Arts (MFA Dance) and Smith College (BA Sociology; Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude.)