AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a year-long dance advanced-training programme aimed at dancers between the ages of 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli and is promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. It sets out to train artists ready to approach the variety of the international dance market with flexibility — artists able to respond to the demands of different kinds, technical and stylistic, that come from this very market. The project aims to offer a wide range of stimuli — technical, cultural and of exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works in different settings among the most compelling on the international scene. Agora brings young dancers together with established choreographers of differing stylistic orientations, and over the years it has seen the presence of many illustrious names: alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, various teachers collaborate on the project, each endowed with proven and qualified experience in the field.