Puck Melk - Artist - Choreographer - Dancer
Puck Melk (2001, The Netherlands) is an Amsterdam area based artist, choreographer and dancer. Through the use of different media; moving images in the broadest sense, film installations, choreography and performative objects, Puck explores how to receive, display, celebrate, embrace and question everyday life in a detailed and a slightly recognizable way.
She catches specific essential perceptions of daily life and captures them in time and space. Reconstructing and deepening these intriguing observations through the use of fragmentation, rhythm, repetition, contradictions, perspective and the movement of the details of daily life; such as structures, actions, habits and sensory perceptions. We quickly and often overlook these observations, because we are used to them.
Through perceiving the world as choreographies, which move within themselves and in connection and relation to each other, Puck aims to convey this existential longing and to encourage others to perceive the ‘real’ life: A life wherein everything consists of moving networks, even in stillness. A life with its ambiguous meanings within its details, wherein the ‘choreographies of life’ embody us and we, as humans, embody them.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2022
internship with May Heek (atelier and history archive), Diemen and Zutphen
2022
internship with Gijs Assmann (atelier and on location (public space)), Amsterdam
2019-2023
ArtEZ Fine Art Base for Experiment Art and Research
2017-2019
ArtEZ Danslab
Dance pre-education: Classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, physical dynamics and hip hop
2013-2019
Cygnus Gymnasium Amsterdam (incl. Goethe Deutsch certificate)
2012-2017
Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten 5 o’clock class
Dance pre-education: Classical ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, house & more
Exhibitions / shows
2024
2024
2023
2023
Huntenkunst, Ulft, The Netherlands
KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Full:Filled, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Verschuivingen, Landsmeer, The Netherlands
2013-2018
54 dance shows as dancer and/or choreographer in: The Bijlmer Park theatre Amsterdam, the AHK theatre Amsterdam, the Geert Groote College theatre Amsterdam, the ArtEZ theatre Arnhem, the Stopera theatre Amsterdam (in collaboration with the Junior Company of the National Ballet and The National Opera of the Netherlands), the Korzo theatre The Hague
Residency and courses
2023
2022
2019
2017
2016
Lukida teaching course for teaching art at primary schools
Cittadelarte art residency at Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella Italy
audition workshops ArtEZ- Dance course in preparation for auditions
Dutch don’t Dance Division full course B - Dance course + shows in Korzo Theatre The Hague
Dutch don’t Dance Division half course A - Dance course + shows in Korzo Theatre The Hague
Collaborations
2024 - present
collaboration with Ingmar de Wijk
2023 - present
collaboration with Nicoliene Papenburg
2021
collaboration with Carmen Molenaar "Be-licht-e vlakte"
Other relevant work experience
2024 - present
Film and animation on commission
2024 - present
teaching art at primary schools
2022 - present
voluntary work for the Van ezel tot muur Foundation (art and health care)
2020 - present
project assistant at Uniq_ Label, company in design, art and furniture
2020 - present
project assistant at Bureau IFA masters in space, Architecture company
Puck Melk