MEDIATHEK

Cosmin Manolescu is a Bucharest-based choreographer and cultural manager. He is the executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation (the new name of the former Project DCM Foundation). Cosmin made his debut as a choreographer in 1994 part of the Marginalii, one of the first collective dance group created after the Romanian revolution of 1989. Since then, his artistic works have been successfully presented in important festivals and venues in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Bremen, Bucharest, Dublin, Florence, Liverpool, Lyon, New York, Diego, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, etc. Together with Gabriela Tudor, he created in 1997 the Project DCM Foundation and played an important role in the development of contemporary dance in Romania. Since 1997 they have been collaborated together in several dance projects such as Balkan Dance Platform, a regional showcase taking place every two years in a Balkan country, BucharEast.West international dance festival (2001, 2003), Sibiu Dans 2007, Migrant Body (2006-2007), Serial Paradise (2003-2007), Private Show (1999 – 2007), Dans.Ro 2007 tour, ArtistNe(s)t (2006 – 2008). ‘Supersomething’ (2008-2009) was the last final artistic project on which Cosmin Manolescu worked with Gabriela before she passed away.(Dance.Ro)(RS)