Charlotte Mclean is a trans-disciplinary artist whose practice attempts anti-capitalist, cyclical ways of working through movement, voice, and collaboration. A graduate of London Contemporary Dance School and recipient of the 2025 Arts Foundation Dance Fellowship, her choreographic journey draws on Scottish Highland Dance, which she competed in throughout her childhood. She is currently undertaking the year-long anthropological research project my body is my home, reimagining Highland Dance as a living, evolving tradition capable of holding multiple bodies, stories, and futures.

Her first solo work, And (2022), received critical acclaim at The Place following a successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe run. It has since toured the UK through the Rural Touring Dance 
Initiative and internationally to Romania, Norway, Poland, and Switzerland. She has committed to perform this work for the rest of her life. Her second work, Futuristic Folktales (2024), was a co-commission by The Place and Tojo Theater. Her forthcoming work, not for glory (2026), is a collaboration with contemporary/Irish dancer Jack Anderson and bagpiper/composer Malin 
Lewis. The work world premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2026 before touring Scotland in 2027.

Charlotte co-founded two contemporary movement bands badbodychaoscode and Die Berner Band, who have performed internationally at venues and festivals including the V&A,Tanzhaus Bern, Alte Münze Berlin, Pete the Monkey, and Brainchild.

Charlotte has also performed with Eva Recacha Productions, Barrowland Ballet, and Curious Seed. She teaches at London Contemporary Dance School and previously worked as Associate Centre Assistant at the Royal Ballet School.