Manuel Meza is an internationally working performer, choreographer and teacher who has been trained at the Art Universities California Institute of the Arts for their Bachelor of Fine Arts and obtained their Master of Arts degree from the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Choreography and Composition. They have worked with Yuan Yuan 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 with Tabatha McFadyden at the Wiener StaatsOper and recently worked as Assistant Choreographer for the Hoffmanns Erzählungen production at the Berlin Staats Oper. Manuel is currently dancing in the Deutsche Oper Berlin production, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, directed by David McVicar. 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.
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