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My class is an ongoing movement research that deals with understanding and refining sequential impulses and energetic channels within the body. It is the process of being deliberate and specific with physical impulses that create a defined fluidity and charged physical presence. The class is composed of structured warmup exercises, choreographic phrases, as well as improvisational tasks that begin to have the dancers enter into the research I call, “Sequential Flow”. I view my research at the intersection of Modern/Contemporary techniques and Improvisation practices; utilizing release and recovery explorations in the body that can be translated while moving in space, upright, or on the floor. The class stimulates our bodies and minds; awakens the spine and allows channels of energy to flow within the body and in space. At the heart of my research is the joy of movement mixed with the urge to push through our own physical and mental barriers.
Manuel Meza is an international working performer, choreographer and teacher who has been trained at the Art Universities, California Institute of the Arts for their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and obtained their Master of Arts from the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Choreography and Composition. They have worked with YuanYuan Wang of the Beijing Contemporary Dance Theatre, Okwui Okpokwasili, Douglas Nielsen, Claus Guth and Sommer Ulrickson at the Festival D’Aix-en-provence and Opera Comique, Lydia Steier and Tabatha McFadyen at the Wiener StaatsOper, and most recently is the “Dance Captain” for the “Les contes d’Hoffmann” Opera by Lydia Steier premiering at StaatsOper Under den Linden in November 2025.
Their passion for dance education has allowed them to teach master classes throughout Germany and Internationally including California Institute of the Arts, Riverside City College, Marameo Berlin, TanzFaktur, and is a Faculty member at the Berlin Dance Institute. Most recently Manuel Meza was a choreographer in residence at Riverside City College where they created their newest choreographic work, In the Pursuit of Self Love.
In 2023, Manuel began their journey as a producer by organising the dance festival Against the Grain which offers a stage and space for POC, Queer, Non-binary/Trans, and radically thinking dancers and performers who are often times fighting for visibility in the dance world. That same year they produced the dance event Smashing Spheres where they premiered a new work A Lonely Paradise, a solo that traces the decade long path of grief and the journey to self love and acceptance. Against the Grain will have its third iteration in December 2025 at TheaterForum Kreuzberg.