
Manuel Rochette is a dancer, facilitator, and host of Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival in Canada. With nearly 20 years of experience with the form of Contact Improvisation, his personal studies got him closer to teachers such as Martin Keogh, Angelika Doniy, Alicia Grayson, Ray Chung, Scott Wells, Vega Luukkonen, Kira Kirsch, Paul Singh, Andrew Harwood and more. His facilitation approach is at the nexus point where skills, states, play, and spontaneous composition merge while always bringing a strong emphasis on presence and connection to duet and space.
His dancing style aims at creating ever-changing pathways, opening to novelty, and modulating patterns.
Curiosities of the moment: Accessing poly-centricity, how to increase availability & generosity with the body, opening the backspace, falling together, and continuity of movement.
He has explored many continents and communities dancing and has harvested gems from all of them.
Manuel is an avid jammer while he continues to deepen the practice in classes and workshops.
Manuel is also a DJ and a gardener from which he sources inspirations and metaphors.

