CORA Dance Festival

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.

WEEK 2 CREATION !!
AUGUST 24-28 - HORACIO MACUACUA
Info: [email protected]
www.coradancefestival.com

By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the chance to study with renowned choreographer Horacio Macuacua, engage in intensive movement training, and prepare a performance piece to present at CORA On Stage on the evening of the 28th.
The inflexibility of the established paralyses the movement, dims the ingenuity, and casts a shadow over surprise. but life force makes us adaptable; it gives us the opportunity to transform space and to translate energy into matter, matter into its own evolution. the outline of the spontaneous is blurred to disappear, the margins of the predictable are softened, and we know the interrogation point that questions the automatic response. the body allows us to transcend. horacio proposes a highly physical work that demands attention, interest, and intensity rather than a certain technique level, challenging the potentiality of each dancer to push the limits of body imagination and expression further to discover new and surprising possibilities. the workshop evolves with what the group offers, as the ability to create and compose physically needs training and attention, as well as technique or style. through the group process, the participants learn from each other through acceptance and transformation, collaboration, and observation of their own dance and of the whole group. let’s dive into the work, get the engines started, and let the imagination flow! let’s dance!

AUGUST 19-20 - NATALIA PIECZURO
Info: [email protected] / www.coradancefestival.com

You will mainly experience “movement situations”: irregular training designed to increase the adaptive value of your behavioral traits and strategic planning. We will use “what if” scenarios and create parallel worlds (theater) to generate insights (“information”) that help us communicate better with the world.

We will work with complex, often improvised structures to develop movement quality and expand creative variability across artistic, professional, and personal domains. The focus is on understanding principles of human motion and how stress and pressure influence perception, behavior, and action, as well as how to remain creatively adaptive in complex situations.

Improvisation, imagination, and creativity are central. They are essential to problem solving, which supports adaptability, longevity, and sustainability. Improvisation is a necessity of life, imagination is a way of thinking about it, and creativity is a way of communicating and engaging with it.

To face life’s complexity, we learn to embrace problem solving as something to value and actively develop. We will also explore these “lands” through practice.

We will strengthen partnering skills (communication skills). Working with a partner introduces real-time irregularity that shapes behavior, expands movement qualities, and develops tempo and rhythm. Through partnering, movement situations, coordination work, tools, injury prevention, body conditioning, and embodied presence (“being”), we develop focus, awareness, and systemic integration.

We aim to break existing patterns (unlearn them), build new ones, and discover new capacities. We will explore how to learn as much as possible, and how to remain open to the new while staying grounded.

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, member of Judith Sanchez Ruiz Company. Judith Sanchez Ruiz has developed two training methods- Functionality and Perspective in Dance and Your Own God- which are both used for practice within her company and as a guest teacher in Germany and abroad. She has been working as a professional educator in these techniques since 2010.
“Functionality and Perspective in Dance”
A class which investigates and trains in the release technique. Key points involve the importance of being grounded but dancers also work with initiation and arrival, visceral, and organic movement. The class builds up stamina and also creates an understanding of how weight is shifted, movement is clarified and attention to detail, precision and dynamics are achieved in a multidirectional approach.

“YOUR OWN GOD” Intensive improvisation Workshop
Triggering your un/comfortable zone and guiding you to look for the unknown exploration of different approaches to movement. This course focuses on practicing how to develop movement in composition with space and a relationship with others.

AUGUST 17-21 - ADRIANO BOLOGNINO
Info: [email protected] www.coradancefestival.com

By applying for this CREATION, you’ll have the chance to study with renowned choreographer Adriano Bolognino, engage in intensive movement training, and learn an excerpt from his repertoire Chopin / In Us Burning, which will be presented at CORA On Stage on the evening of the 21st.

The workshop will unfold in two complementary phases: a first part dedicated to rhythmic research and a second one focused on choreographic work aimed at the creation of a new piece.

Starting from key aspects of his choreographic practice—gesture, composition, and rhythmic phrasing—Adriano will invite participants to explore how movement can emerge and develop through the use of hands, arms, face, and specific body parts. Participants will investigate how these elements can merge through different dynamics and qualities of movement.

The first part of the workshop will focus on body awareness and deconstruction, through improvisation, duet, and group exercises designed to stimulate mental and physical responsiveness, with a strong emphasis on listening and group awareness. The second part will shift towards choreographic work, in order to collectively build material for the new creation.

Adriano’s creative process is based on instant composition: all choreographic material is generated live in the studio, in dialogue with the dancers present. He does not use improvisation in the conventional sense nor arrives with pre-set material—he instead works in the “here and now,” being shaped by the people and the energy present in the room.

CORA Dance Festival – On Stage

The lights came up, and something in the room shifted—we were all drawn into the same heartbeat.

The evenings of the CORA Dance Festival 2025 gathered us around moments we’ll carry with us: performances that spoke directly to the soul, without needing a single word.
🎭 Special Guest

Thank you for the stories you offered us, for the worlds you shaped with your bodies, and for the emotions you left glowing in the room.

The magic is still alive—relive it through our gallery.
✨ And if you were there, we’d love to hear your favourite moment… or tag the person who shared it with you.

At CORA, dance is more than a performance. It’s a feeling we experience—together.

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