June 2024
Melo will be in Mexico City creating a new multidisciplinary work with singers and musicians based on the work Johannes Brahms. Premiere: July 10th 2024 at Teatro de La ciudad.
May 2024
Melo will be working with the dancers of Balettakademien in Gothenburg, Sweden.
March 2024
“Shadow Waltz” Melo’s new creation for MiR Dance Company in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Premieres on March 30th, 2024 at Musiktheater im Revier.
February 2024
Melo’s new work “Bab(b)el” for Theater Trier, Germany, will have its premiere on February 3rd.
December 2023
Melo will be working with the dancers of Theater Trier, in Germany creating an evening together with choreographer and director Roberto Scafati. Premiere February 2024.
October 2023
“Leaning Tree” a new creation for Danish Dance Theater in collaboration with Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra performing a new composition by Signe Lykke. Premiere October 21, 2023 at The Royal Danish Playhouse.
July 2023
Melo begins the creation of a new work with Gibney Company, in New York, USA.
June 2023
“Perilous Deep” a new site specific performance in collaboration with MiR Dance Company and Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen-Buer in Germany. will have its premiere on June 3rd, 2023.
April 2023
Melo will be working with the dancers of Nuova X Professional Dance Program in Turin, Italy.
March 2023
“never odd or even” to be present at the V&A Museum in London, U.K. on March 31st.
December 2022
Melo to create a new work for the Danish Dance Theater, in Copenhagen, Denmark in collaboration with Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra performing a new composition by Signe Lykke. Premiere October 2023.
November 2022
“Drömlek” (Dream Play), will return to theaters in Sweden at Regionteater Väst in Borås, Sweden.
October 2022
“Blue”, a collaboration with puppetry theater Teater Sesam in Gothenburg, Sweden will premiere in October 29th 2022.
September 2022
“If Walls Could Speak”, a new site-specific performance created to celebrate the grand opening of Spazio Mutina, in Modena, Italy. A collaboration with dancers from Agora Coaching Project.
July 2022
“never odd or even”, a new creation for Aterballetto will premiere at the Ravenna Festival in Italy.
June 2022
“The Alchemist’s Feast” an installation created for The National Gallery in London will premiere on July 23rd.
April 2022
“Mitridate, re di Ponto”, by Mozart choreographed for Skånes Dansteater in collaboration with Malmö Opera and the Royal Danish Opera will premiere on April 8th in Copenhagen.
December 2021
Fernando will be lecturing at the “Next Generation Choreographers” course at Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/ Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
November 2021
“Afterimage”, created fo the National Dance Company Wales is returning to stages. Performances in Wales and Germany. More info.
October 2021
“The Bell Jar”, a new site specific solo for Aterballetto in Italy will premiere on October 9th at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. A co-production with Les Halles de Schaerbeek from Brussels and the Greek National Opera Ballet.
February 2020
“Drömlek” (Dream Play), Melo’s new creation for Regionteater Väst will premiere on February 4th, 2020 in Borås, Sweden. Watch the trailer here.
January 2020
The Opera “Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner will have its Italian premiere at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna on January 24th, 2020.
October 2019
Melo to collaborate with Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia, Italy on a to premiere in November 2020.
August 2019
Rehearsals for “Dream Play” have begun with Introdans. Save the date: Premiere on October, 19th 2019 in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
July 2019
Skånes Dansteater will be in Italy at the Operaestate Festival Veneto in Bassano del Grappa performing “The longest distance between two points”. From July 27th, 2019.
June 2019
Melo will be returning to Springboard Danse Montréal on this June. Showing at Usine-C in Montreal, Canada. on June 27th, 2019.
May 2019
After Mexico and South Korea, the new Swedish version of “The longest distance between two points” will premiere with Skånes Dansteater in Malmö on May 15th, 2019.
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Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” premieres at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium on May 2nd, 2019.
March 2019
The Korean National Contemporary Dance Company will be performing “The longest distance between two points” in Malmö and in Seoul together with Skånes Dansteater this March. We look forward to experiencing the result of this brilliant exchange.
February 2019
“Afterimage”, a new creation for National Dance Company Wales premieres on Friday the 28th of February 2019 at the Riverfront Theater in Newport, Wales.
NOVEMBER, 2018
The Opera “Le Villi” by Giacomo Puccini, a collaboration between Aterballetto and the dancers from Agora Coaching Project will have its premiere on November 23rd, 2018 at the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, Modena, Italy.
June 2018
On June 15th, 2018, "The longest distance between two points" will have its premiere at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea with the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company.
May 2018
“Tristan und Isolde” conducted by Alain Altinoglu with choreography by Fernando Melo, set design by Alexander Polzin and direction by Ralf Pfleger will have its premiere at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd of May 2019.
February 2018
Melo to collaborate with the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company in a choreographic exchange with Skånes Dansteater from Sweden at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea in June 2018.