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As an academic and teacher her aim is to enable perception of embodied experience drawing on somatics, anatomy and movement analysis. These approaches supporting an articulate practice-as-research in creative movement and choreographic practice.

Her choreographic work includes independent solo and group works and commissions: Presenting 16 original works in Britain and internationally between 1999-2019.
She is the author of the Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques published by Crowood Press. She regularly presents at conferences on movement analysis and pedagogy. She is a specialist in Labanotation and a fellow of the International Council of Kinetography Laban. Among others, she has scored Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (with Jouke Kolff) which she has also reconstructed for educational proposes and also for the MOVE: Choreographing You exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 2010.

Qualifications and Educational Background

Melanie Clarke is an alum of Trinity Laban graduating with a BA Honours Dance Theatre degree and a MA degree in Dance Studies focusing on Dance in Education, Dance Documentation and Reconstruction, and Choreography. After passing with Distinction Melanie joined the Trinity Laban faculty.

She is an accredited External Examiner (AdvanceHE) and has undertaken this role for Greenwich, Suffolk and Gloucester Universities.