Renae Shadler is an independent choreographer and dancer based between Melbourne and Berlin. She works across a variety of contexts; from dance on stage and major festivals, to museum events and outdoor public engagement projects. Shadler is committed to developing and creating work across Western Europe, regional Australia and Melbourne, inviting international collaborators to teach/perform in Australia as well as initiating independent projects. Her current co-productions include SKIN a dance duet with Roland Walter, a German dancer with full-body spastic paraplegia, and the Susurrus project (2017-) initiated with Finnish choreographer Maria Nurmela. Susurrus has been presented among others at Tomas Saraceno´s exhibition ON AIR at the Palais de Tokyo Museum (Paris, 2018). In 2012 Shadler founded Renae Shadler & Collaborators who create interdisciplinary performance experiences that engage creatively with site and are developed in collaboration with touring artists and local participants. Past projects have been presented in train stations, city squares and in 2015 represented Australia at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space. Renae also works as a performer and acting coach with leading theater and dance companies such as Alexandra Pirici (Romania), Dewey Dell (Italy) and Australian companies; PVI Collective, Triage Live Art Collective, Maybe_Together and Blackhole Theater. She was also the acting coach on ‘Asobi’ by Koari Ito produced by Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium, 2013).