PHANTASM 2025

PHANTASM is the latest performance work by choreographer Melanie Lane, commissioned by Chunky Move as part of Lane’s 2023/24 Choreographer in Residence tenure.

PHANTASM explores the terrain of the supernatural. Ghosts, jinns and heroines emerge from the underworld, drawing from stories of feminine spirits and fictions. Unpacking the roots of these stories and re-visiting them as bodies of resistance and knowledge, PHANTASM creates a world where there is slippage between the seen and the unseen, and where the spirit realm permeates through a dance that transforms and transcends.

Creative Team

Choreography Melanie Lane and collaborators
Performers Nikki Tarling, Rachel Coulson, Ashley McLellan, Georgia Rudd
Music Composition and Performance Rama Parwata
Costume Design Paula Levis
Lighting Design Bosco Shaw (Additive)
Set, Video and Olfactory Design Eugyeene Teh
Double Ended Spike Jemima Lucas
Lighting Programmer Drew Thompson
Stage Manager Shiv Geaney
Operator Ethan Hunter
Costume Intern Reuben Baron
Set Design Intern Maya Anderson
Production Manager Ashley Buchanan
Production Coordinator Benjamin Beare
Producer Kristina Arnott
Producer – Corps Conspirators Freya Waterson

Pas De Quatre
Written by March/Pugni
Rob Forberg Musikverlag GmbH
Administered by Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd

World Premiere Season
7–16 August 2025
Chunky Move Studios

PHANTASM was commissioned through Chunky Move’s 2023/24 Choreographer in Residence program.

PHANTASM is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, the City of Melbourne, and Project 11.

This project is delivered through Corps Conspirators. This initiative, supported by Creative Victoria and led by Melanie Lane, is a project exploring collaborative choreographic practices, multi-artform experimentation and transcultural experience.