Manel Salas
Manel Salas Palau (1980) from Barcelona began his career dancing, teaching and choreographing hip-hop after studying Physical Education. His interest in dance led him to study mime, Butoh, acrobatics and improvisation. In 2008 he graduated in contemporary dance from Codarts, the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Since then he has been teaching and dancing with a variety of companies, projects and choreographers around the world, including 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. He teaches internationally, collaborates with other artists and develops his own work, touring in China, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Spain. In 2020, Manel was honored with a cultural award from the City and Canton of Zurich.
