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 (contact improvisation), Masaki Iwana (Japanese butoh), Carlos Gavito (tango argentino) she also took various intensive workshops with Rick Nodine, K.J. Holmes, Deborah Hay, Pablo Veron and Katsura Kan amongst others.

Winner of the Lea Anderson Choreographic Award for her dancefilm 'Double One' (tango & Jungian symbolism) she was also the recipient of ACE awards and presented several experimental works mixing choreography with improvisation, video and installation. Collaborations include Simon Hyde, Ricardo Badaracco, Leonardo Suarez Paz, Bijiana Lipic, Rebecca Skelton, Denis Buckley, Zephir in Zanussi, Genine Edwards, Jeramy Zimmerman, .

She 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 TangoContact in London in 2003 (Dome, Creative Swing, Welsh Centre) with Robert Anderson and in 2005 in New York with Edwin Adkins as an experimental attempt of merging tango with contact improvisation. Two shows followed in Resolution! with Dylan Elmore and Winifred Burnet Smith (2006-2008) and the formation of TangoRelease in 2009: http://tangorelease.blogspot.com

Recent projects include 'La Boca Tango' with Denis Buckley as part of Big Dance, co-ordinating '60x60 Dance London' at Stratford Circus and 'Instant Composition' with Sebastian Garcia Ferro at the Bluecoat Arts Centre (Liverpool).