Allà with Manel Salas and Cécile Brousse – Small Format

Manel Salas Palau: (1980), from Barcelona, after studying Physical Education, began his career dancing, teaching, and choreographing hip-hop. His interest in dance led him to study mime, butoh, acrobatics, and improvisation. In 2008, he graduated in contemporary dance from Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Conservatory. Since then, he has been teaching and performing with various companies, projects, and choreographers from around the world, such as Paper Tiger (China), Julyen Hamilton (England), David Zambrano (Belgium), Àngels Margarit (Spain), Arno Schuitemaker, Edita Braun (Austria), Cobosmika Company (Spain), Ramon Oller (Spain), Jasmine Morand, and many more. Manel was awarded a cultural prize from the city and canton of Zurich in 2020.

Cécile Brousse:She studied classical and contemporary dance at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and theater at the Erik Satie Conservatory in Paris. She completed her training with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Julyen Hamilton, and David Zambrano, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Performing Practice and Visual Culture from the University of Castilla–La Mancha and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. She is also an educator and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering (a somatic practice). Deeply interested in questions of space(s), both on the surface and in depth, she explores and stretches choreographic possibilities. She is an associated artist of the Dorothy Michaels collective and has collaborated since 2018 with choreographers Cuqui Jerez and Julie Nioche.