David Charles Manners

David Charles Manners (1965-now)

David Charles Manners (born 1965) is a British author and co-founder of Sarvashubhamkara, a charity that provides medical care, education and human contact for socially excluded individuals and communities on the Indian subcontinent. His mother raised in Sussex, his father on India's North-West Frontier and in the East Punjab, David enjoyed an eclectic European education in Epsom, Lichfield, Paris, Frankfurt, London and Stockholm. David worked for five years as a theatre designer, primarily with Adventures in Motion Pictures, one of Britains foremost dance companies, for which he was also commissioned to compose original instrumental work. His designs included Matthew Bourne's Infernal Galop, Deadly Serious, The Percys of Fitzrovia and Drip (BBC's Dance for the Camera). "David influenced a lot of AMP work throughout those years, because he had so many interests," says Matthew Bourne. "He was someone that I could definitely develop ideas with, that I could talk to about what I should do next... Certainly David was an important influence throughout those years. " David also designed the first Italian translation of Bernstein's Candide for Graham Vick at Batignano, Tuscany. He appears at the funeral in the hit British comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. A translator for the Parisian Professor Alfred A. Tomatis and briefly for Virgin Films and the National Research Group, David subsequently trained in Physical Medicine. Since 1996, he has worked as physical therapist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he also teaches Shaiva Tantra Yoga. He has led courses in the same, little-known tradition at English National Opera, for the Jerwood Young Artists Programme, and with village groups in various regions of India. He also undertakes work as a professional genealogist, having over twenty years' experience in family research. Since 1993, David has spent his life between the Sussex Downs and the Bengal Himalaya. A published cartoonist by the age of fourteen and a published poet by the age of twenty, his first book, In the Shadow of Crows, is published by Reportage Press. A percentage of the publisher's profits from its sale is dedicated to the work of Sarvashubhamkara amongst the ostracised in India.

David Manners's Books:

[The Corpse In The Cage | Fifty Grand Funeral | The Corpse Talks]

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