Performances

Moving to Connect

Performance Project

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 grants from the Next Steps for Boston Dance/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.

Past Performances

  • June 19: 7:30pm, Somatic Dance Festival. Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NA

    June 20: 7:30pm, Somatic Dance Festival. Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NA

    Jan 24: 7:30pm, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 3 Performance, Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA

    Jan 25: 3:00pm, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 3 Performance, Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA


  • Jan 25: 7:30pm, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 1 Performance, Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA

    Jan 26: 3:00pm, SynchroniCity Dance Co. Season 1 Performance, Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA


  • Nov 9: 8:00pm, Rootes & Routes, Presented by The Dance Complex at Arrow Street Arts, Cambridge, MA

    Nov 10: 4:00pm, Rootes & Routes, Presented by The Dance Complex at Arrow Street Arts, Cambridge, MA

    July 20: Presentation, "Moving to Connect," NDEO/ISMETA Somatic Movement in Dance Education: Enhancing Health and Creativity for Teachers & Students, New York, NY

    July 15: Presentation, "Fostering Community Through Collaborative Teaching," Bill Evans Somatic Dance and Movement Conference, Port Townsend, WA

    July 14: 7:00pm, Bill Evans Somatic Dance and Movement Conference, Port Townsend, WA

    January 20: 7:30pm, Salem State University Faculty Concert, Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Salem, MA


  • October 22: 6pm. Sleeping Weazel Theater Company Presents: Experimental Cabaret. The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

    May 13: 8:00pm, DANCE NOW Boston, Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

    May 14: 7:00pm, DANCE NOW Boston, Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA

  • June 12: 7:00pm, aMaSSit, Complex@Canal, Cambridge, MA

    February 25-26: 8:00pm, Nachmo, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA


  • July 30-Aug 6: Acadia Film Festival, premier of Through the Dust

  • September 26-28: 8:00pm, “We Try to Live Together,” Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

    September 14: 7:30pm, Salem State University Faculty Concert, Salem, MA

    July 12: 7:30pm, Somatic Dance Festival, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY

    July 10: 7:30pm, Somatic Dance Festival, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY

    June 8: 2:00pm, Salem Arts Festival, Old Town Hall, Salem, MA

    May 8: 7:00pm, Dance in the Galleries Series with the Davis Sisters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

    March 22: 8:00pm, Third Life Choreographer Series, Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA

    March 11: 5:30pm, The Pit, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

    March 7: 6:00-8:00pm, “Liquid Portraits,” Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, MA

    March 1: 12:00pm, “Dances at Noon,” Jackson Dance Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA

    Feb. 24: 7:00pm, “Mind the Gap,” Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA

    Feb. 8: 8:00pm, “Nachmo,” The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA


  • September 16: Saturday, 7:30pm, Salem State University Dance Faculty Concert, Salem State University, Sophia Gordon Center, Salem, MA

    July 14: Friday, 1:30pm, Stone Church Series, Southern Vermont Dance Festival. Stone Church, Brattleboro, VT

    July 13: Thursday, 4pm. Opening Gala, Southern Vermont Dance Festival. Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, VT

    April 2: Sunday, 6:30pm. MADFest performance. Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.

    February 11 & 12: Performance at Tiny & Short: A Drop in the Bucket. The Dance Complex. Cambridge, MA.

    January 29: 6:00pm. NACHMO performance. The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

    January 28: Open rehearsal for NACHMO. 6:30-8:00pm. The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.


  • October 22 – 23: Performance with James Morrow and Dancers. Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

    July 16: Performance with Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp. Somatics Dance Conference and Performance Festival. Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY.

    July 16: Presentation with Rose Pasquarello Beachamp “Beyond Technique: Teaching Student Empowerment in the Dance Studio,” Somatics Dance Conference and Performance Festival. Geneva, NY.

    June 24: Performance at The Festival of Us, You, We and Them. Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

    June 11: Performance with James Morrow. Alumni Concert. Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.

    April 30 - May 1: Performance at Salem State University. Salem, MA.

    February 6: Performance with Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Allison Ross, Jimena Bermejo. “4 Square.” Four Square. Quartet. Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA.


  • July 18: Presentation, “Somatics: Teaching Strategies.” Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival. Franklin, MA.

    July 17: Performance at Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival. Franklin, MA.

    November 9: Performance at Guest Artist Concert, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

    October 26: Performance at Faculty Dance Concert, Salem State University, MA.

    October 23 – 24: Performance at Sweaty Epiphany by James Morrow. Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

    July 16: Performance at Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival. Dean College, Franklin, MA.

    June 13: Performance at Alumni Concert. Solo by Meghan McLyman. Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.

    May 15: Performance with Maggie Husak. Trident Live Arts Series, Trident Gallery, Gloucester, MA.

    May 9: Performance at Ten Tiny Dances. Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.