In 2007 Manu Laude created his London-based Manu Laude Company (MLC) to build a team of talented artists, choreographers and directors to reinvent the way audiences experience live entertainment.

MLC creates performances for all types of events and productions: from large scale festivals to smaller energetic family shows which can be choreographed to enhance other modern visual mediums, be it film or video to create unique and original performances for various themed events: from sport to comedy, to high artistry. MLC can also choreograph to various musical forms, be it an MC, to DJ, a pre-recorded soundtrack or a live Opera and Symphony Orchestra.

MLC specializes in creating productions which combine modern, contemporary, street and hip hop dance with object manipulation, acrobatics and any type of artistic skills. That basically means that artists perform their dance routines and unique artistic skills while throwing any type of prop around and at each other. Props have included everything from machetes to buckets, spades, brooms, hats, pens, books, basketballs, torches, bottles, fruits, bricks, bicycles and mobile phones. MLC also likes a challenge: you provide a prop and we'll devise a trick around it.
Productions can also be tailored to involve non-performers and local community members - be it spontaneous or work shopped - to create fun, interactive and community engaging shows.

Leading the MLC team is director Manu Laude, whose professional career as a choreographer and performer spans more than a decade and has seen him entertain audiences - as a solo artist and company performer - in more than 20 countries around the world.

Manu's MLC team can perform existing productions or create original shows for any sized audience or venue. From a 30 seconds advertisement to a full two hour long performance, MLC has a catalogue of prepared shows and sequences suitable for stage shows, galas, theatres, operas, photo shoots, video shoots, television shows, advertisements, marketing campaigns, product launches, corporate events and festivals.

MLC's professional artists include acrobats, gymnasts, street dancers, free runners, aerialists, acrobalance, equilibrists, flair artists, basketball freestylers, football freestylers, modern dancers, contemporary dancers, tap dancers, break dancers, musicians, orchestra conductors, costume designers, fashion designers, lighting designers, choreographers and artistic directors.

MLC is also an agency to help independent productions find directors, choreographers and performers for productions outside of the MLC program.

In 2008, MLC expanded into opera, with choreographer/co-director Manu Laude successfully introducing contemporary and break dance to the Orpheus & Eurydike Opera at Berlin's Bode Museum, which resulted in sell-out shows.

Other highlight client performances include Wembley stadium, O2 arena, Stade de France, The Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, English National Ballet, Berlin's Wintergarten, TOCC Berlin, Dubai's Mall of the Emirates, Circus Space, and special performances for Prince Charles and The Queen of England.