Carlee Mellow graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995. Over the last 15 years she has worked in both film and live performance as a choreographer, dancer, actor and collaborator with many choreographers and directors, touring nationally and internationally.
Carlee is the recipient of numerous grants and commissions, winning the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer (1998) and receiving a nomination in 2010 for her role in Sandra Parker’s Out of Light and Chunky Move’s Black Marrow. This year her solo work, EXPECTATION received 4 Green Room nominations.
Her choreographic work has been presented in Melbourne and Berlin and includes:
episode (2001) choreographed and performed with Jo Lloyd
- Diva (2002) as Artist in Residence at Gasworks Arts Park, performed at forty-five downstairs
- rock, paper, scissors (2004) for VCASS
- Curls and Kebabs (2005)
- No Exit (2006) choreographed and performed for Dance Works
- Playground (2006) for VCA
- Malleable Stacy presented in Ballhaus Mitte, Berlin (2006)
- Happy Hour (2007) for Natalie Cursio’s ‘The Album Project’ at the Arts Centre
- small world (2007) as Artist in Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre
- Prologue (2008) for Lucy Guerin’s Pieces for Small Spaces and Midsumma Festival (2010)
- Without Pretence (2009) for VCA
- In The Dark (2010) – Deborah Hay’s solo commissioning project presented by Dancehouse
- Simmer (2010) for The Substation as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival
- EXPECTATION (2010) presented with Arts House for their Future Tense Season
Carlee has recently completed a residency at Belvoir Theatre with Nicola Gunn working on their interactive performance event, ‘Hello, my name is.’ She has also choreographed for Arena Theatre’s Girl Who Cried Wolf (2008), The Malthouse Theatre and Arena Theatre co-production of Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (2009) and Oz Opera’s La Traviata (2010).
Local and international companies and choreographers she has worked with include Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Sandra Parker (Dance Works), Phillip Adams (BalletLab), Tracie Mitchell (Twirling Sheila Productions), Lisa Nelson (US), Russell Maliphant (UK), Lea Anderson (UK), Prue Lang (Fr), Damien Jalet (Belgium), Erna Omarsdottir (Iceland), Meryl Tankard, Rebecca Hilton, Sue Healey, Shelley Lasica, Gerard Van Dyck, Fiona Cameron, Ros Warby, Trevor Patrick, Jo Lloyd, Natalie Cursio.
Directors include David Pledger (NYID), James Brennan, Chris Kohn (Stuck Pigs Squealing), Ana Kokkinos, Margie Medlin, Angus Cerini, Nicola Gunn and Kate Denborough (KAGE).
Carlee has taught the 3rd year students at the VCA since 2004 and the post-graduate students from 2008 – 2010. She regularly teaches at Chunky Move and has taught at Lucy Guerin Inc., Dancehouse, Oz Opera, Bangarra Dance Theatre, KAGE Physical Theatre and Dance Works.
She is also a qualified yoga teacher.
Carlee was Program Producer at Dancehouse from 2008 – 2010.
