Professional Training Contemporary

Manel Salas Palau was born in Barcelona in 1980. Following studies in Physical Education, he started his dancing career performing, teaching and choreographing Hip-hop. His interest in dance brought him to also study mime, Butho, acrobatics and improvisation. In 2008, he received a BA in Contemporary Dance from Codarts Rotterdam Dance Conservatory. Since then, he has been working with different companies, such as Paper Tiger, Julyen Hamilton, David Zambrano, Angels Margarit, Arno Schuitemaker, Edita Braun, Cobosmika Company and Ramon Oller. He has been living in Switzerland since 2015, where he creates his own work and collaborates with artists such as Cie ZeitSprung, Jens Biederman, Jasmine Morand, Oliver Dähler, Corsin Gaudenz and Dominique Girod. In the last ten years, Manel Salas Palau has focused his artistic practice on the art of Instant Compositions, sharing creative process with musicians, filmmakers, circus artist, architects, doctors and NGOs alike. In 2019, he founded the company Wendig together with the artist and doctor Philip Amann. Manel Salas Palau teaches and presents his own work internationally such as in China, Russia, Spain, The Netherlands, France and Switzerland.