Marlene Skog

Marlene Skog is an award-winning choreographer and educator, whose career spans over twenty-five years across the U.S. and abroad. Skog’s choreography has been performed at the King’s Palace Edinburgh Scotland, Vancouver B.C., Manoa Hawaii, Chicago, Charlotte NC, NYC, Tallahassee, Madison Ballet and many venues across the Midwest. While living in Europe, she choreographed for the International Arts Festival Norway, Scandinavian Cultural Conference, the International Women’s Convention Uppsala University, and for official cultural events, historical theater and folk opera.

Skog was awarded the prestigious, Folkuniversitetets Cultural Prize, Gosta Knutsson Cultural Award and NordBanken’s Cultural Award, each a unique honor for a non-Swedish citizen. She also directed an international dance company while living in Sweden, performed, collaborated with Swedish choreographer Birgit Cullberg, and founded Uppsala Dansakademin, an establishment for dance arts today.
Skog is a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn. In her early years she freelanced as a contemporary ballet and modern dance artist, studied dance at the Alvin Ailey and Merce Cunningham Studios, New Dance Group, and Ballet Arts-Carnegie Hall. She earned her MFA in Dance at the University of Arizona specializing in choreography and teaching.

The essence of Skog’s work addresses the enduring question of what it means to be human and is purposeful in its strong synthesis of movement, music and message.