Mélanie Demers

Mélanie Demers is a Canadian dancer and choreographer from Quebec, most noted as founder of the Mayday Danse company.

She was born in Montreal, and raised in Quebec City. Formerly a dancer with the O Vertigo dance company, she launched Mayday Danse in the mid-2000s. Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts, Junkyard/Paradise, Goodbye, With a Trace, La Goddam Voie Lactée, and Confession pbblique.

In 2024 she was named the recipient of the National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.