MELE BROOMes
Mele Broomes is an award-winning choreographer and performer. Her work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations through her ancestral heritage. Activating social questions, remembering and celebrating.
Mele has delivered a wide variety of projects. Such as dance productions, workshops, performance platforms and more. Working between directing, creative producing, choreography and performance. Mele works at creating teams that best reflect and support the artistry that is being presented. So the voice of the work and the artist/s is respected and cared for.
Mele founded V/DA in 2011, a multi disciplinary platform that endeavours to create agency for the creative contributors. Through the V/DA platform, Mele has directed, performed and curated including the following; Grin, Dance International Glasgow, 2019, Sonic Séance: The Gathering, exhibition, events and workshops, Centre For Contemporary Art, 2019, and Sonic Séance, live performance, Take Me Somewhere Festival, 2019. variousdanceartists.co.uk
Project X is a multi-disciplinary, collectively run organisation based in Scotland, platforming dance of the African and Caribbean Diaspora. We collaborate with artists and organisations, to deliver bespoke workshops, facilitate conversations, produce and curate performances and events in Scotland and beyond.
Project X is about changing the conversations and perceptions around dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Scotland. Through profiling practitioners and platforming the diverse styles, we celebrate our heritage and broaden the mainstream consciousness. Embedded through all of our programme is education through creative learning. We encourage all those who take part to be empowered with the historical knowledge and its contemporary impact in every context they move in. Project X is collaboration and we celebrate the cross-pollination of identities, ideas and forms. projectxplatform.co.uk
RECENT WORK:
Sonic Séance, directed by Mele Broomes
Grin, directed by Mele Broomes
VOID, choreographed and performed by Mele Broomes
Project X, collectively ran organisation co-director Mele Broomes