Cosmin Manolescu is a choreographer, performer and cultural manager based in Bucharest. He is executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation (the new name of the former Project DCM Foundation). He made his debut as a choreographer in 1994 as part of “Marginalii”, one of the first collective dance groups created after the 1989.

Since then, his artistic works were successfully presented in important festivals and venues in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Bremen, Bucharest, Dublin, Florence, Liverpool, Lyon, New York, Paris, Rome, San Diego 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 colaborated with Gabriela before she past away.

Between 1999-2007, in collaboration and with the support of DTW New York, the Trust for Mutual Understanding and DanceAdvance, Philadelphia, Cosmin developed several projects with US artists such as Donna Uchizono, Allyson Green, Melissa Putz, Ju-Yeon Ryu and Eric Schoefer, Yanira Castro and presented in Romania performances by John Jasperse, Homer Avilla, Amanda Loulaki, Allyson Green dance company, Leah Stein dance company, Pima Group and Ivy Baldwin dance company.

Cosmin received several awards and fellowships such as: the Award of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts for the development of the contemporary dance in Romania (Bucharest, 1998); ArtsLink Fellowship (USA, 2002); SACD and Sogeda Awards for the project “Don’t Ask the Blond” (Monaco Dance Forum, 2004); Prize “Nouveau Talent Choregraphie” (SACD Paris, 2005). Cosmin Manolescu played also a major role in the creation of the National Dance Center in Bucharest, the only public institution for contemporary dance in Eastern Europe.