[2][3] Schanne was eight years old when she was admitted to the Royal Danish Ballet school after passing the entrance examination.
[3][5] Schanne made her debut as a ballet dancer on 29 September 1939 in Lander's reconstruction of August Bournonville's The Valkyrie.
[2][3] That same year, Schanne joined the Royal Danish Ballet,[1] as a principal dancer a result of her performance in Vaaren.
[2] Schanne was a guest of the Ballet des Champs-Élysées run by Roland Petit in Paris and London 1947.
Schane danced Night Shadow by George Balanchine from 1955 and portrayed the centre of Pas de Quatre by Anton Dolin.
[5] Schane also played parts Eleonora in Kermesse in Bruges in 1951, Victorine in Konservatoriet in 1953, and Rosita in Far from Denmark in 1956 and 1957 all by Bournoville.
[2] In 1963, she performed the final major part of her career, the title role in Irene Holm by Elsa-Marianne von Rosen based on a short story by Herman Bang.