
Photo: Michael Dedeke
BIOGRAPHY
Melanie López López was born in Germany and raised in Spain, where she trained in classical ballet and Spanish dance. In 2009, she received a scholarship to pursue a Master of Arts in Advanced Dance Studies at the London Contemporary Dance School.
After graduation, Melanie became active in the European dance scene, performing with companies like the National Company of Ireland, Peter Schaufuss Balletten, AVA Dance Company, and in Productions of the London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. She has worked with choreographers such as James Wilton, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Alexandra Pirici, and Henrique Rodovalho. From 2013 to 2015, she was a dancer of the dance ensemble at Stadttheater Hagen, followed by a position at TanzTheater Münster until 2018.
Melanie then returned to the freelance scene, working and performing in Spain, Malta, Italy, and Germany while starting as well developing her own works. Her solo work, Raices Suspendidas, received special recognition at the "Festival Internacional de Danza en Cáceres." and was selected as part of "Me, myself and I" at the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. Her solo "17Pétalos" was on Tour in North Spain as part of the Dance Festival "La RED".
Since 2020, Melanie has increasingly focused on developing creative and collaborative projects, with a strong interest in exploring unconventional spaces. She co-created Something in Between and presented it at various venues in Germany. Other projects include creations and performances for the St. Paulus Dom in Münster, Delphi Space in Freiburg or Theaterlabor Bielefeld, and further collaborations with artists and companies such as Theater Titanick, Stadtensemble Münster , Kollektiv| Körper | Fest or the Westfälisches Landestheater.
In 2021, she co-founded the Kollektivergissmeinicht artists’ group, creating and presenting multidisciplinary works in Münster and Leipzig. In the same year, thanks to the funding of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, she initiated the TanzXchange network for Münster’s freelance dance scene, where she is currently involved in the production and curation.
Furthermore, Melanie works as guest teacher for various dance companies of Stadt Theaters around Germany and is the outreach coordinator and part- time choreographic assistant for the dance company "Tanz Münster" at the Theater Münster.