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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

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


MOUNTAIN
2023

New Creation (in development)
2024

Dream Swamp (in development)
2024

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

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