SP25 SEQUENTIAL FLOW
Sequential Flow with Manuel Meza
11.08.–15.08.25, 19:30–21:00
Intermediate
Full workshop
60€ marameo members
75€ non-members
Drop-In
13€ marameo members
16€ non-members
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Sequential Flow 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 will be split into two components; a technique class to warm up and ground the dancers, followed by choreographic phrases as well as improvisational tasks that begin to have the dancers enter into the research of Sequential Flow. I view my research at the intersection of Modern and Contemporary dance techniques, utilising release and recovery explorations in the body that can be translated while moving in space, upright, or on the floor. The class begins with structured exercises to warm up our bodies and minds, awakening the spine and allowing the warmth to radiate outwards. At the heart of my research is the joy of movement mixed with the urge to push through our own physical and mental barriers. This class is geared towards experienced beginners and intermediate dancers; advanced dancers are welcome to join.
About Manuel Meza
Manuel Meza is an international working performer, choreographer and teacher who has been trained at the prestigious 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; and is currently dancing in the newest opera production by Lydia Steier with Tabatha McFadyden at the Wiener StaatsOper premiering in May 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 iterations in late 2025.
