Melanie Greene


Melanie Greene is an American writer, dancer, and choreographer. She is best known for being part of a dance ensemble, the skeleton architecture, which won a Bessies Award in 2017.

Biography

Greene is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelors in Journalism and Mass Communication. She went on to receive her Master of Fine arts in Dance and Choreography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greene began writing in high school and continues to write performance reviews for The Dance Enthusiast, articles for Dance Magazine, long-form artist profiles of dancers and choreographers for Dancer's Turn, and her personal blog On the Scene with Lanie Reene.

Dance

Greene has been described as a "movement-based artist."

Methods of Perception

Greene created a collection of dance works called Methods of Perception: Dance to Engage the Senses which seeks to heighten the dance performance experience by engaging all of the senses. Greene states that her work "smells like delicious pomegranates and body sweat wrapped in fuzzy naked flesh and lacy garter belts". Her work has been presented at New York Live Arts, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart Festival, and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

List of Works

Greene was a 2016 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks artist, a 2015 Gibney boo-koo Space Grant recipient, and a 2016 Actors Fund Summer Push Grant artist.
As part of the ensemble of the skeleton architecture, Greene won the Outstanding Performer award at the Bessies 2017 alongside Nia Love, Maria Bauman, Paloma McGregor, and others.