Melanie Lane
Skinners
NDCWales Presents
International Touring
Production
Skinners by Melanie Lane
We live in a digital age. We use filters to blur reality and avatars that disguise our identities. We talk to AI, and it talks back to us. We are teetering on the edge of a thrilling and terrifying future where the human body glitches between flesh and illusion, fact and fiction.
Beyond the fantasies that technology makes possible, our humanity remains. How do we return to the physical world, and to the skin we are living in?
Skinners by Melanie Lane, an Australian choreographer of European and Javanese heritage, features new music from composer Yamila Rios, costume designs by Don Aretino and light from Welsh designer Ceri James.
Composer: Yamila Rios
Choreographer: Melanie Lane
Costume Design: Don Aretino
Lighting Design: Ceri James
Created with Dancers: Alys Davies, Samuel Gilovitz, Jill Goh, Niamh Keeling, Mario Manara, Edward Myhill and Faye Tan
Melanie Lane
Melanie Lane is an Australian choreographer and performer of Javanese/European cultural heritage. She works across visual arts, theatre, music and film. Her work interrogates physical and cultural histories to explore current social mythologies and extrapolates these into surreal futures that are confounded, broken and reconfigured. These independent works have been presented globally at festivals and theatres in Europe, Indonesia, United States and Australia. Drawing on her European and Indonesian heritage Lane moves between cultural landscapes and influences. Melanie engages regularly across projects in Indonesia as choreographer, collaborator, performer and mentor.
Photo: Barbara Dietl
Melanie Lane
