The research conducted by the Manufacture is directly related to the questions of contemporary creation in the field of performative arts.

It follows three directions: a research on art as can engage the human sciences; research for art as can participate in science and technology; and research by art also called research-creation.

The research conducted at La Manufacture is twofold: analysis of practices and research-creation in dance and theater. It is conducted collectively by mixed teams: practitioners and theorists or historians build knowledge together. Research-creation projects provide artists with an opportunity to develop experimental work, free from the need to create works whose formats meet the expectations of the production and distribution systems of the current cultural economy. What is questioned and rethought, giving rise to innovation, is as much the work of the performers as that of the staging or choreography, as well as the ways in which the work is shared with the public.

The analysis of practices, for its part, aims to observe, describe, and situate the activity of actors, dancers, directors, and choreographers in a historical perspective and a broader context. The focus is not so much on the works themselves as on what is required to create them, which unfolds in studios, workshops, bodies and minds, and in the gestures and words exchanged between artists as they work.

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La Manufacture belongs to the Institut de recherche en musique et arts de la scène (IRMAS). The IRMAS has three axes : Creation and interpretation, Art and Society and Transmission.