Works
Dream Swamp
2024
Skinners
for Dance Theatre Wales
2024
Arkadia
2024
MOUNTAIN
2023
Bone Smoke
for Dance Theatre Heidelberg
2023
Into The Woods
for Lucy Guerin Inc
2022
Slow Haunt
for West Aust. Ballet
2021
Alterum
for A.D.C.
2021
Crushd
for Nagelhus Schia
2020
Personal Effigies
Keir Choreographic Prize winner
2018
Nightdance
2017
WOOF
for Sydney Dance Co.
2017
Wonderwoman
Bewegungkunstpreis winner
2016
Re-Make
for Chunky Move
2016
Merge
2015
Igor - Hush Hush
2013
Tilted Fawn
2010
Personal Effigies
Keir Choreographic Prize winner
2018
Nightdance
2017
Wonderwomen
Bewegungskuntpreis winner
2016
Re-Make
2016
Merge
2015
Igor - Hush Hush
2013
Tilted Fawn
2010
Nosferatu
with Adena Jacobs for BurgTheatre
2024
Die Troerinnen
with Adena Jacobs for BurgTheatre
2022
with Amos Gebhardt
20
Evanescence
with Amos Gebhardt for The Substation
2020
Salome
with Adena Jacobs for English National Opera
2018
This Endless Becoming
with Bridie Lunnie for National Gallery of Victoria's 'Melbourne Now'
2014
MAD
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Carte Blanche
2069
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Staatstheater Oldenburg and Tanztheater Nordwest
Krisis
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Padang Panjung
Melanie Lane
Choreographer and performer, collaborating with artists across film, visual art, theatre and music to create works that tread between forms and contexts.
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Melanie Lane is an Australian/Javanese choreographer and performer. She works across and between performative contexts to interrogate the body beyond dominant narratives.
Melanie’s independent works have been presented across Europe, Asia and Australia. She has been commissioned to create works for West Australian Ballet, Chunky Move, Sydney Dance Company, Dance North, Australasian Dance Collective, Shauspiel Leipzig, Nagelhus Schia Productions and Dance Theatre Heidelberg.
Melanie has choreographed works for the English National Opera (Salome) and Burg Theater Vienna (Trojan Women). She regularly collaborates with UK electronic musician CLARK (Warp Records) and choreographed his 2015 & 2017 live shows, which were presented at 30+ international venues.
Melanie was the recipient of the 2017 Bewegungskunstpreis (Germany) and the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award (AU). In 2022, she was the inaugural Established Artist in Residence at University of Canberra x Belco Arts; was Resident Director at Lucy Guerin Inc in 2015. She is currently the 2023/24 Choreographer in Residence at Chunky Move; a Resident Artist at The Substation; an Associate Artist at e.motion21 and QL2 (Canberra). Melanie is a recipient of the 2023 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and the 2024 Australia Council Fellowship for Dance. She is the Chair of Melbourne’s Dancehouse.
Works
Dream Swamp
2024
Love Lock
for Sydney Dance Company
2024
Skinners
for Dance Theatre Wales
2024
Arkadia
2024
MOUNTAIN
2023
Bone Smoke
for Dance Theatre Heidelberg
2023
Into The Woods
for LGI
2022
Slow Haunt
for West Aust. Ballet
2021
Alterum
for A.D.C.
2021
Crushd
for Nagelhus Schia
2020
Personal Effigies
Keir Choreographic Prize winner
2018
Nightdance
2017
WOOF
for Sydney Dance Co.
2017
Wonderwoman
Bewegungkunstpreis winner
2016
Re-Make
for Chunky Move
2016
Merge
2015
Igor - Hush Hush
2013
Tilted Fawn
2010
Salome
with Adena Jacobs for English National Opera
2018
Evanescence
with Amos Gebhardt
2020
This Endless Becoming
with Bridie Lunnie for National Gallery of Victoria's 'Melbourne Now'
2014
MAD
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Carte Blanche
2069
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Staatstheater Oldenburg and Tanztheater Nordwest
Krisis
with Kobalt Works / Arco Renz for Padang Panjung