Lead creative of IVRE+MORT, Arts Project Atelier, Emmanuel has over ten years international experience in the performing arts industry as a dancer, performer, teacher and rehearsal director.

​After graduating from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2006, Manu took up a position in the Characters and Parades Department at Disneyland Resort Paris before travelling to the UK to take up an apprenticeship with Diversions The Dance Company of Wales then work with RanciDance in London for two seasons. Returning home to Australia in 2009, Manu performed the lead role in Ulysses Dancers season of Giselle in Townsville and was invited to perform as a guest with Compagnie Mado in New Caledonia for their season of Bijoux.

​In 2011, he took up a position with Footnote New Zealand Dance for four years allowing him to work with many of New Zealand’s most prominent choreographers, tour internationally to the USA, Germany, the UK, France and Belgium as well as choreograph Strive in collaboration with Levi Cameron and Jason Wright. Manu is also a regular collaborator with the Borderline Arts Ensemble, most notably 2017’s award winning season of Lobsters, has featured in 7 of the World of WearableArts Awards Shows, danced for Black Sheep Production's Everything Anyone Ever Wanted, toured with Atamira Dance for their international tour of PANGO and was rehearsal director for Taki Rua’s national tour of Tiki Taane Mahuta.

​Since initiating IVRE+MORT in 2016, Manu has produced Empathy Test, a solo experiential dance piece, as well as Appetite for Destruction, which is being developed into a full length piece and Forget to be Human, currently in development stages. At present, he is co-producing and rehearsal directing for projectMUSE with his partner Hannah Tasker-Poland.