projects

is a two part performance and film installation project by Melanie Maar and Lindsay Packer. The first performance took place at Center for Performance Research Brooklyn in May 2023. ‘Generations#1’ refers to the reverberation of image from the sensual source through interplay between live video feedback and movement. In continuously transforming mundane magic, these two…

Line Death Dance is an ongoing performance and publishing project self-reminding, celebrating and sharing non-linearity and inter-relatedness of its creative processes. Initially the project served to re-group my relationship to dance and performance in the personal, collective and public realms. Desire grew to involve a diversity of mutual voices into a material and immaterial dialogue…

creation, choreography and performance –        Melanie Maarcreaton, sound and performance –                     Kenta Nagai process performances-April 2015, Austrian Cultural Forum NYJune 2015 National University Mexico City ‘We are drawing on connections between aesthetics of Heavy Metal, Animalism, Folklore Mythology and a strong drive…

choreography and composition –  Melanie Maarcreated and performed –  Laurel Atwell, Marilyn Maywald and Melanie Maarcreated by lighting designer – Carrie Wood and Maaradditional live sound compositions –  Abraham Gomez-Delgadocostumes –  Melanie Maar PremiereOctober 17-19/ 2013, Danspace Project NYC ‘At first glance, Melanie Maar’s dances are subtle creations, but by the final blackout, it’s hard…

creation- Melanie Maar performance- Melanie Maar, Edith Greutmann December 12th, 2015, Brooklyn Studios for Dance

members: Rachel BernsenAbraham Gomez-DelgadoMelanie MaarTaylor Ho Bynum MoC is a transdisciplinary performance collective of artists exploring ritual in composition since 2012. The group practices spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography in the moment, continuously seeking a collective consciousness as well as individual presence. They enjoy to conduct ceremonies of…

a collaboration with sound artists Christian Schröder performed by Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder image by Carolina Sánchez Numerous Sensing plays with recognizing the synchronization and separation of the internal and external. Numbers and rhythms.Of self and space, movement and sound, bodies and material, seeing and being, of actual and mystical, nature and wire, of…

my work/ live space 2008-2014 classes, rehearsals, performances and gatherings took place here.