CORA Dance Festival

A 4-day intensive performance project 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.
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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.

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.

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

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🔗 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.