« Ahead ! On wild paths, wandering the randomness of existence. In loss, in search of self.

What troubled roaming do you contemplate from your remote windows ?

You are here, despite yourself. All on board. It wears your skins »

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A new creature is immersed in the derision of human life and experiences it. Despite itself and in all its candor, it is led to take on a human skin, subjected to the weight of the environment, of the living space and thoughts. Wandering randomly through existence, this Being is confronted with common existential pitfalls and shackles, it rushes into the lark's mirrors. However, through gaps and bursts, it is caught suddenly lucid in the face of a factitious existence, trying to free itself from confinement in images of itself and of the world. This being is perhaps not human but it yet evokes all Humans, in their great fragility.

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Jean-Gabriel Manolis is a French dancer performer.

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Initially trained as an agricultural engineer, he shifted to contemporary dance, then Butoh which shaped his research on the relationship between body and consciousness.

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Deeply influenced by traditional Asian arts and theater-dance forms, he directed several pieces for the stage and performances in natural or exhibition spaces in which he explores Presence as a fundamental mystery.

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As a performer, he is involved in transdisciplinary collaborations, whether in theater (Pauline Haudepin's "Chère Chambre") or in museum works (notably Lee Mingwei’s “Our Labyrinth”, presented in numerous international museums), where he pursues his quest of revealing Reality in its strangeness and its grace.

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He lives in Paris, where he founded the company Dancing the Question in 2019.