Skinners

Touring as part of

two dancers twist together under a strange blue light, there is a red neon line running horizontally across the page behind them

Frontiers | Gorwelion

Autumn 2024

Escape to the edge of your seat A double bill with life-affirming choreography by Matthew William Robinson and Melanie Lane

Dancers in black sequin costumes legs in air

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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.

Creative Team

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

Choreographer