Melanie López López is a freelance dancer and choreographer. She studied classical ballet in her hometown Oviedo (Spain) and completed a Master of Arts at the London Contemporary Dance School.

Since 2008, she has been working internationally as a dancer, including Companies such as the National Company of Ireland, the Peter Schaufuss Balleten, BoKomplex, Cienfuegos Danza and in productions of the Sadler's Wells Theatre. She has worked with choreographers such as Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Alexandra Pirici, Henrique Rodovalho, Javier de Frutos and Gerda König. This was followed by engagements at the Stadttheater Hagen and the Tanztheater Münster before she returned to the independent scene in 2018.

Her choreographic works has been shown in Spain and Germany at festivals and venues such as La RED, the Festival Internacional de Danza Cáceres, and Me, myself and I at the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. She has created work for  unconventional spaces such as the St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster, the Weser Renaissance Museum in Lemgo, Lamberti Church in Coesfeld or the Delphi Space in Freiburg. She was also invited to choreograph the musical Cabaret, in 2023, for the Westfälisches Landestheater, which is since on tour around NRW.

Her interest in research-based working methods led her to the residency grants from the Fonds Darstellende Künste for the choreographical researches: Mindfulness of Emotions (´21), Decoding Flow/Painting Choreography(´23) and The Bridge (´25). She has worked in collaborative creations—including the Tiny Residencies fund (NRW LFDK) with Ricardo Campos Freire—and co-founder of the Intersdiscipilnary artists collective Kollektivergissmeinicht, that created 2 full lenght works. Melanie also initiated and currently leads the local dance Network TanzXchange—Freie Tanzszene Münster, which promotes artistic exchange amongst professionals and sharing contemporary dance with a larger audience. Paralell to that, Melanie works part-time at Tanz Münster ( the dance company of Theater Münster) as the outreach coordinator, choreographic assistant, and production manager and teaches in professional and social settings.

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