'Adagio con Brio' aims to merge three distinct dance forms:

   - the passionate intricacy of Tango Argentino
   - the fluid physicality of Contact Improvisation
   - the subliminal austerity of Japanese Butoh

   Additionally, the employment of new technologies such as Isadora Software                       allows the opportunity for further theatrical  layers.

   The Artistic Director/Choreographer is Adriana Pegorer


     
                                                Photos: Julia Burstein (rehearsal)


Adriana Pegorer is an independent dance artist interested in the interweaving of forms.
Born in Italy, where she competed as an athlete, she moved to the uk in 1995 and graduated in Dance & Related Arts at Chichester University in 2001.
Mainly trained with Thomas Kampe (ci), Masaki Iwana (butoh), Carlos Gavito (tango) she also took various intensive workshops with Rick Nodine, KJHolmes, Deborah Hay, Pablo Veron and Katsura Kan amongst other.
Winner of the Lea Anderson Choreographic Award for her dancefilm 'Double One' (tango & Jungian symbolism) she was also the recipient of ACE awards.
She recently performed in Marta E. Savigliano's 'Wallflowers and Femme Fatales' at Harvard University (Boston, USA) and presented her own research at ‘Body, Movement and Dance in Global Perspective’ (Hong Kong, China).
Adriana presented several experimental works mixing choreography with improvisation, video and installation, working collaboratively with visual & performance artists, dancers, musicians and writers and funded Adagioconbrio in 2006.
She has been free-lancing in various organizations and institutions, in addition to teaching pilates, facilitating tango sessions at the RNIB and hosting ‘tango release’, a class and jam at Siobhan Davies Studios every first Sunday of the month.