Agora Coaching Project is a year-long advanced dance training programme based in Reggio Emilia, aimed at dancers aged between 18 and 22. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza.

The project aims to train artists who are ready to face the diversity of the international dance market with flexibility—artists capable of responding to a wide range of technical and stylistic demands emerging from today’s professional context. Agora offers a broad spectrum of stimuli, encompassing technical training, cultural enrichment, and opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and operates within some of the most dynamic and interesting realities of the international dance scene.

Through encounters with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, Agora exposes young dancers to a plurality of artistic visions. Over the years, the project has welcomed many distinguished names. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, a number of highly experienced and qualified teachers collaborate in the realisation of the programme, each bringing recognised expertise within the field.