Melanie Kloetzel

Melanie Kloetzel is the artistic director of kloetzel&co, a dance theatre company founded in New York City and now based in Canada. Committed to research that links performance, place, text and characterization, the company’s work has appeared in heatre venues, film festivals and alternative spaces across three continents. Kloetzel’s publication credits include her anthology with Carolyn Pavlik, Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces, the co-written (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives and articles in Dance Research Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, Dance Research and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, among others. She is an associate professor of dance at the University of Calgary.