Sara Manente (Italy, 1978) graduated in Communication Science (Bologna) and completed the post-master a.p.t/A.pass in Performing Arts in Antwerp. She works on projects that have a choreographical starting point but also touch the field of visual arts: Democratic forest, a practical and theoretical research in collaboration with Alessandra Bergamaschi about movement of masses, crowds and communities (www.democraticforest.com), the video Some performances in collaboration with Ondine Cloez and Michiel Reynaert and the dance performance Lawaai means hawaai, selected for the prix Jardin d’europe 2009 and presented in Brussels, Antwerp, Vienna, Ferrara.

She works as a performer for Marcos Simoes, Aitana Cordero Vico and Kate McIntosh. She is one of the founding members of the association CABRA vzw (http://cabra.weebly.com/) facilitating the work of seven artists: Sara Manente, Marcos Simoes, Norberto Llopis, Jaime Llopis, Santiago Ribelles Zorita, Kyung Ae Ro and Varinia Canto Vila.

Recently she started working on Grand Tourists in collaboration with Ondine Cloez and Michiel Reynaert (grandtourists.weebly.com), not not a lecture. two commen- taries together with Constanze Schellow (a lecture performance that premiered in Tanzquartier Vienna in December 2010) and on the dance quartet Faire un four.

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