Mel is a dance artist and educator, who works as a teacher, choreographer, movement director and consultant with a range of dance and arts organisations. She is currently a full-time, Senior Lecturer in Community Dance Practice at 性吧电台 and Associate Dance Artist at Curve Theatre, Leicester. Mel teaches dance and choreographs in youth, community and professional contexts alongside her work as a lecturer at 性吧电台.
Some of Mel's recent projects include choreographer/movement director for The Polar Express (2018 to 2024) for Wise Owl Theatre Company ; Alice in Wonderland (2022) for Wise Owl Theatre Company, Garbo & Me (2021) for Central School of Speech and Drama, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (2021) for Curve Theatre; for Curve’s community productions of Fiddler on the Roof (2018) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017); and movement director on Made at Curve family productions of Giraffes Can’t Dance (2019), Cat in the Hat (2018), Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine (2017), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (2016), Roald Dahl’s The Witches (2015/16). She has also created a number of dance pieces for stage, film and site-specific environments for Curve Young Dance Company. In 2014 Mel worked alongside Nikolai Foster to create a large-scale community performance for Richard III reinterment at Leicester Cathedral.
Mel leads professional development and advises teachers, dance artists and dance organisations on delivering high quality dance education to children and young people.
Her philosophy as an artist and educator are that dance includes everyone, and brings value to all people, from all communities and in all places.