Beginning with his seminal work in New York, Composer Manjunan Gnanaratnam has worked extensively, since the early eighties, as an inter-disclipinary artist in modern, post modern, contemporary dance and performance art. He has collaborated with and composed for numerous choreographers and dance companies both here in the United States and abroad and with his extensive experience in Limon, Graham, Cunningham, Wigman, Hawkins, Holm, Horton, Post Modern forms, Improvisational methods, Release methods, Fusion methods and other technique forms/movement vocabularies, he has abeen a musician for master classes conducted by numerous choreographers including among others, David Parsons, Elizabeth Streb, H.T. Chen, Don Redlich, Dan Wagoner, Liz Lerman, Bill Evans, Susan Marshall, Robin Stiem, Clyde Morgan and Bill T. Jones. His current research includes explorations in Physical Computing Methodologies, control of the physical world/choreography through MIDI, which he began in 1990 at the Computer Music Labs at the Department of Dance, State University of New York at Brockport, while a faculty musician there, and "Contemporary Dance [Modern/Western Movement Vocabulary]: The catalyst for deviation and extension in Post Structural Sound, Choreoperiodocity, Optimum Creative Dialog and the Dunnist Period in Music", begun at Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2004. Manju's current and future projects include "STEEL" an evening length performance art installation, based on his Optimum Creative Dialog principals in performance, utilizing the Weisman Art Museum structure, collaboration with Choreographer Sharon Mansur of Mansur Dance, the reconstruction of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's work "Ceylon" to be set on choreography by the nATANDA Dance Theatre and directing the pilot program "Open Source Dance". Manju has served on numerous panels, with the most recent being "100 years of Sound and Choreography: The Evolution and Praxis of a Collaborative Art Form" for the SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art, "Music and Dance" for the National Association of Schools of Dance [NASD] and presented papers with the most recent on "Contemporary Dance [Modern/Western Movement Vocabulary]: The catalyst for deviation and extension in Post Structural Sound, Choreoperiodocity, Optimum Creative Dialog and the Dunnist Period in Music" at the 20th anniversary conference of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. He currently directs the pilot program of Open Source Dance in Minneapolis, MN, USA.