Performances

Moving to Connect

Performance Project

Join Us for Our Next Performance!

Somatic Dance Conference & Performance Festival

Hobart & William Smith College

June 18-21, 2026

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over 20 years of artistry

  • Moving to Connect (MTC) Performance Project, beginning in 2004 under the name Accumulation Dance, is a partnership between choreographers Meghan McLyman and Kristen Duffy Young. Their mission is to create original work that expresses the human experience through contemporary modern dance, humor, storytelling, and theatrical elements.

  • MTC Performance Project is based in the Boston area and has received support from the Boston Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, and Boston Center for the Arts.

  • MTC Performance Project has been presented by Dance NOW Boston, Crash Arts/World Music, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Dance Complex, College of the Holy Cross, Salem State University, SynchroniCity Dance Co. and more.

Perfect score

  • Premiere, Jan 24-25, 2026, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 3 Concert, Boston, MA

  • Determination, resilience, grit - join two world class athletes as they put it all on the line. What will it take to win the gold?

  • Photo Credit: Jack Tan

Please begin

  • Premiere, Jan 25-26, 2025, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 1 Concert, Boston, MA

  • When the world craves your light.

  • Photo Credit: Jack Tan

the slightest variation of weather

  • Premiere, May 13-14, 2023, Dance NOW Boston, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

  • Through the use of theatrical elements and repetition, this dance explores slight variations in time, space and sequencing to alter meaning making.

film: through the dust

  • Choreography and Performance by Meghan McLyman and Kristen Dufy Young, March 31, 2021

    Videography by Eric Fisher

    Editing by Catherine Siller

    Music by Michael Wall, An Agreement


    Dust, reduced matter to its smallest particle. Tiny remnants of a life lived.

  • Winner, Best Film Short, Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival, 2022

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ladylike

  • Premiere, February 8, 2019, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

  • Ladylike examines the restrictions society has placed on women through the rules of etiquette. The expectations to be well mannered, well groomed, and quiet are brought into question as the choreographers explore past and present standards that keep women in their place. Equipped with a list of Don'ts and a unique theatrical style, the choreographers discover what it takes to follow the rules and what might happen if you break them.

  • Photo Credit: Olivia Blaisdell

disjointed tales of a woman

  • Premiere, March 1, 2019, Tufts University, Medford, MA

  • Through humor, feathers, and snazzy dance sequences, the choreographers create a world in which they examine their identities as white, heterosexual women in a society dominated by patriarchal structures.

  • Photo Credit: Eric Fisher

salt

  • Premiere, March 22, 2019, Third Life Studio, Somerville, MA

  • Salt explores the journey of embodied resiliency, from struggle to acceptance. This solo was created in response to the performer's journey through breast cancer.

  • Photo Credit: Eric Fisher

betty

  • Premiere, January 26, 2016, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

  • Betty explores the physical and mental tension that arises when working women are expected to "do it all."

  • Photo Credit: Christopher Huang

wrinkles

  • Premiere, May 9, 2015, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

  • Wrinkles explores the female aging body through gesture, storytelling and witty self-reflection.