Melinda Ring, choreographer, creates dances, performance pieces, videos and installations. Her recent works have been supported by Movement Research, The Box, The Kitchen, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, Contact Quarterly, The Metabolic Studio (Annenberg Foundation), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Emergency Grants), Gibney Center (DiP), and Mount Tremper Arts. Ring has developed programing as an artist-curator for Danspace Project. She is a Critic in Sculpture at Yale School of Art, 2014 – present, and a visiting Lecturer in Dance at UCLA, Spring 2016 (Movement Research exchange program). Ring is a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist awardee.