Manning is a dancer and choreographer currently base in Zurich
After completing BA ballet performance in Shanghai Theatre Academy, she joined Suzhou Ballet as a soloist, where she won the First Prize and Best Performance Award at Ballet Grand Prix Vienna. She travelled to Austria to study contemporary dance and now completing her MA choreography in University of the Arts Zurich. She is also a registered trainer of Gyrokinesis®.
She was a member of the ATLAS choreography programme at the Impulstanz Festival 2024 Vienna and assistant at the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden. She has performed her own works in different places. Such as Gessneralle zurich, kulturmarkt , Kunsthaus Zurich etc.
She is interested in interdisciplinary collaborative work. She uses physicality, sociality and self-exploration as choreographic tools in the hope that the public will perceive the emotional core and message of the work.