CORA Dance Festival

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

CORA Dance Festival 2026 is opening a special creation with Adriano Bolognino

📅 17–21 August
📍 Taranto, Puglia, Italy

A 5-day intensive creation journey led by culminating in a final performance during the On Stage evening on 21 August.

This is not just a workshop, it’s a space for creation.

✨ Spots are very limited
✨ Open to dancers
✨ Final sharing in front of an audience

If you want to be part of this experience, apply now.

BIO

Born in Naples in 1995, Adriano Bolognino is a freelance choreographer collaborating with both dance companies and independent dancers. His work is supported by leading institutions such as Fondazione Orsolina28 Art and Körper – Italian National Centre for Dance Production. He is also one of the choreographers of the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2024, he received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Dance Production (Middle Scale) for La Duse and won Third Prize at the Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos & Nueva York. That same year, his work Ravel / Into Us – Bruciare was selected for the prestigious Fedora Dance Prize 2025. Previously, in 2022, he was awarded the Danza&Danza Prize as Emerging Choreographer.

His latest creation, Last Movement of Hope | II Chapter – Organi (2025), produced by Körper with the support of major European cultural institutions, won First Prize at the MODAFE Festival in Seoul and premiered in Italy at Bolzano Danza 2025.

Over the years, Bolognino’s works have been presented at internationally renowned festivals and platforms including the Belgrade Dance Festival, Biennale di Venezia, Torino Danza Festival, Triennale Milano, Bolzano Danza, MilanOltre Festival, Fabbrica Europa, Aerowaves, Anticorpi XL and many others.

Alongside his choreographic practice, he is deeply committed to professional training and regularly collaborates with international organizations and educational programs, contributing to the ongoing development of contemporary dance.

06/06/2026

Join at Cora Dance Festival 2026.

On August 17 & 18, Leila will lead two intensive sessions of zone of the unknown.
Open to dancers, performers, movers, and curious bodies ready to step into experience.

🔺 Spots are limited

▪️[email protected]

🔗 coradancefestival.com

BIO

Leila Marie Patzies is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She trained at Iwanson International in Munich and continued her studies with Varium in Barcelona and CobosMika Company Seeds in Girona. In autumn 2026, she will begin her Master’s degree in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).
Her artistic practice is rooted in improvisation, somatic research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. During the Professional Contemporary Dance Certification Program (PCDCP), she trained in 2025 and 2026 with Judith Sánchez Ruíz, whose work has been a significant influence on her artistic development.
Leila has presented her choreographic work (A Space InBetween, A Religious Mating, Why Death Was Just Death) internationally and performed Portrait of an Anti-Hero by Judith Sánchez Ruíz on multiple occasions since 2025. She is also a certified yoga teacher (550+ hours), integrating TCM and fascia-based approaches into both her artistic and pedagogical practice.

05/06/2026

WEEK 1
AUGUST 17-18 - LEILA MARIE PATZIEZ
Info: [email protected] www.coradancefestival.com



By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with Leila Marie Patzies, Professional Contemporary Dance Certification Program (JSR company-PCDCP 2025).

_About the workshop_

ZONE OF THE UNKNOWN

Zone of the Unknown invites participants to explore movement beyond form, diving into deep physicality through improvisation, instant composition and skeletal awareness. The workshop focuses on dancing from the body’s internal architecture, cultivating efficiency, sensitivity, and presence while opening pathways toward visceral and embodied movement.

Through guided improvisation, participants will investigate the interplay of presence and absence within shared movement practice. How does our perception of space shift when elements are layered, removed, or transformed? How do our understandings of boundaries, agency, and freedom evolve in an increasingly fragmented world? These questions become entry points into exploring uncertainty through instinctive, intuitive, and embodied decision-making.

Participants will engage in inventive movement tasks designed to sharpen spontaneity, adaptability, and precision. Individual movement research is woven together with collective improvisation, creating opportunities to navigate the relationship between self and group, structure and freedom. The workshop also explores the tension between optical two-dimensionality and tangible three-dimensionality through shifting perspectives, spatial awareness, and embodied response.

Rooted in somatic research, contemporary dance, and collaborative practice, Leila’s approach emphasizes curiosity, playfulness, and horizontal learning. Participants are encouraged to develop agency within their own creative process, fostering an environment of experimentation, exchange, and discovery. The workshop culminates in an intuitive and organic approach to composition, where movement emerges from attentive listening, imagination, and embodied experience.

04/06/2026

WEEK 2 CREATION !!
AUGUST 26-27 - NATALIA GRANADA
Info: [email protected]
www.coradancefestival.com

By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the chance to study with , engage in intensive movement exploration, and prepare a performance piece to present at CORA On Stage on the evening of the 29th.

_About the creation/performance project_
The Sneeze Lab is a living, almost wild laboratory where movement emerges from organic impulses rather than rigid techniques. The “sneeze” acts as a metaphor: an involuntary, unpredictable gesture that breaks control and opens the way to authentic movement.
It is a space of exploration that moves from the inside out, where sensations and micro-movements expand into dance, in dialogue with the environment and with other bodies. Here, chaos is not a mistake but a creative force—an invitation to let go of control and discover a personal language rooted in identity and everyday life.

03/06/2026

Week 2! Creation.

📅 26–27 August
📍 Taranto, Puglia, Italy

A 2-day intensive performance project led by , culminating in a final performance during the On Stage evening on 29 August.

This is not just a workshop, it’s a space for creation, research, and shared artistic process.

✨ Spots are very limited
✨ Open to dancers and movers ready to dive into creation
✨ Final sharing in front of an audience

If you want to be part of this experience, apply now.
[email protected]

CORA Dance Festival 2026

BIO

Natalia Pulido Granada is a choreographer and performer who blends her Colombian roots with the creative energy of Rome. In her work, gesture becomes a ritual and an act of resistance against homogenization and disconnection from the natural world. Her choreographies evoke sensory landscapes where bodies transform, decompose, and recombine, reflecting the constant change of nature.
Her research, inspired by biodiversity, transforms movement into a poetic language that tells the fragile and chaotic strength of life. She currently focuses on performance art and relational art, exploring the concept of community and creating spaces for sharing. Her most recent research focuses on sneezing and involuntary movements, investigating how the body interacts with public space as a place of dialogue with others. Graduated in Contemporary Dance from the Academia Superior de Artes-ASAB and holding a Master’s degree in Choreography from the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome, she won the Erasmus scholarship at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (2017) and is recently the winner of the A Landscape 2024 grant, which will allow her to participate in the DANCESCAPES 2024 training program.

28/05/2026

WEEK 2 CREATION !!
AUGUST 24-25 - NATALIA GRANADA
Info: [email protected]
www.coradancefestival.com

By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the chance to study with , engage in intensive movement exploration, and prepare a performance piece to present at CORA On Stage on the evening of the 29th.

_About the creation/performance project_
The Sneeze Lab is a living, almost wild laboratory where movement emerges from organic impulses rather than rigid techniques. The “sneeze” acts as a metaphor: an involuntary, unpredictable gesture that breaks control and opens the way to authentic movement.
It is a space of exploration that moves from the inside out, where sensations and micro-movements expand into dance, in dialogue with the environment and with other bodies. Here, chaos is not a mistake but a creative force—an invitation to let go of control and discover a personal language rooted in identity and everyday life.

27/05/2026

Join at Cora Dance Festival 2026.

On August 17 & 18, Leila will lead two intensive sessions of .pcdcp , “Functionality and Perspective in Dance“, a class based on release technique, and “Your Own God“ an intensive improvisation class aimed at breaking conditioned habits of the body and mind to uncover infinite sources of creativity through a functional body.
Open to dancers, performers, movers, and curious bodies ready to step into experience.

🔺 Spots are limited

▪️[email protected]

🔗 coradancefestival.com

BIO

Leila Marie Patzies is a Berlin-based freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Trained in contemporary dance in Munich, Barcelona, and Girona, she works across improvisation, somatic research, partnering, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Deeply influenced by her ongoing collaboration with Judith Sánchez Ruíz, she performs internationally and teaches practices rooted in body awareness, instinct, and functionality. Her choreographic works have been presented at festivals and venues across Germany and internationally. Alongside her artistic practice, Leila is a certified yoga teacher whose work connects somatic awareness, intuition, and collective processes.

13/05/2026

CORA Dance Festival 2026 is opening a special creation workshop with Horácio Macuácua 🇲🇿

📅 24–28 August
📍 Taranto, Puglia, Italy

A 5-day intensive creation journey led by , culminating in a final performance during the On Stage evening on 28 August.

This is not just a workshop, it’s a space for creation, research, and shared artistic process.

✨ Spots are very limited
✨ Open to dancers and movers ready to dive into creation
✨ Final sharing in front of an audience

If you want to be part of this experience, apply now.

CORA Dance Festival 2026

BIO

Horácio Macuácua is a Mozambican dancer and choreographer, and the artistic director of the dance company which bears his name. With no fixed aesthetic limitations, his company develops projects open to the creativity of all collaborators, giving space for each performer to explore their own choreographic universe. He has created works such as COMUM, Orobroy, Stop! (1st Prize and Puma Creative Prize at Danse l’Afrique Danse Festival 2010), Smile If You Can!, Fighting Room, Convoy, Trampled Rose, and Paradise is not in the sky! He is a founding member of Culturarte, the first contemporary dance company in Mozambique, and has collaborated as dancer and creator with Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, Pablo Colbert, George Khumalo, and David Zambrano, whom he considers his maestro and mentor.

04/02/2026

Each year, CORA Dance Festival dedicates space to emerging voices through Artist in Focus — a curatorial program highlighting two emerging artists each week across the festival’s final two weeks.

Through a dedicated video interview and a site-specific side event, we invite audiences to engage more closely with the artists’ practices, processes, and artistic visions.

This reel introduces the second Artist in Focus of Week two, opening a series of conversations that foreground research, context, and the evolving language of contemporary dance.

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