Agora Coaching Project – photo Nicola Stasi
The young talents of Agora Coaching Project for Danza in Fonderia.
The evening features the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training programme promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza di Reggio Emilia, under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Founded in 2010, the programme has gained full recognition in the European dance scene and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
Choreography by: Adriano Bolognino, Paolo Mohovich, Enrico Morelli
Tuesday, June 23 at 9.00 PM
Wednesday, June 24 at 9.00 PM
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a year-long advanced dance training programme for dancers aged between 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza di Reggio Emilia.
Its aim is to train artists who are ready to face the variety of the international dance market with flexibility—artists capable of responding to the different technical and stylistic demands that this market requires. The project seeks to offer a wide range of stimuli, including technical and cultural development, as well as opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works within some of the most interesting contexts on the international scene.
Agora brings young dancers into contact with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, and over the years has welcomed many distinguished names. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, the project is supported by several teachers, each with solid and highly qualified experience in the field.
Michele Merola is the artistic director of MM Contemporary Dance Company, the contemporary dance company he founded in Reggio Emilia in 1999. With the company, Merola has brought many of his choreographies to the stage, both in Italy and abroad, including La metà dell’ombra, winner of the Anita Bucchi Award in 2010, and Bolero, recipient of the Europaindanza 2017 Award – Choreography Merit Award.
Since 2000, he has created numerous works for other companies, including Aterballetto, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Junior Balletto di Toscana, the National Theatre of Belgrade, Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden, and the Rome Opera House. In 2003, he won the Hanover International Choreography Competition; in 2008, the Positano Leonide Massine Award for the Art of Dance; in 2016, the Giornale della Danza Award as Best Italian Choreographer; in 2018, the Incontro con la Danza di Basilicata ArteDanza Award; and in 2019, the Metti le ali al Talento Award for his career and artistic direction of MMCDC.
Since 2010, Merola has also been, together with Enrico Morelli, the artistic director of Agora Coaching Project, a professional advanced training programme for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.
Riccardo Basile, Sara Bianchi, Tommaso Brintazzoli, Alisa Businaro, Anita Campanini, Simone Casella, Giovanni Cennamo, Giulia Chiletti, Margherita Ciardi, Alessandra Fusco, Giulia Giannini, Samuele Iannacchero, Louis Franck Kamta, Marica Lisco, Elena Manfredini, Nicolò Marroccu, Linda Massai, Sofia Oliva, Alessia Romeo, Paula Salinas Alvarez, Alice Scarangelli, Loris Schirinzi, Gabriel Sprovieri, Chiara Tonussi, Claudio Tornesi, Carolina Torrini, Michelle Tuani, Eva Vannini, Camilla Veronesi
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price for under 30s, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65s, and members of the CRAL of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Reduced price for children under 8: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it
