Melanie Greene (USA)

Melanie Greene is a mischief maker (performer), content creator (choreographer), daytime dreamer (writer), and movement schemer (organizer). She is no stranger to swirling on the edge of impossible…swimming in the sea of the minority. Conjuring creative offerings around the U.S and abroad, she has received generous support from National Performance Network, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Keshet, MANCC, Marble House Project, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Movement Research, Mount Tremper, New York Live Arts, Gibney Dance, Entertainment Community Fund (formally Actors Fund), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancing While Black Fellowship, Bogliasco Fellowship, and Brooklyn Arts Council. She has contributed written works to Dance Magazine, Dance Enthusiast, and The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance.

Greene was co-organizer of the Dance Union (featured in The New York Times), and named among Dance Magazine: 2021 "25 to Watch".

As an organizer, and art policy advocate, she has had the pleasure to participate in Creative’s Rebuild New York (CRNY) Think Tank, The Field’s Artist Council, Dance/NYC’s Taskforce, and many other arts and culture initiatives. Stay tuned! www.methodsofperception.com