Da.Re. Dance Research is an international professional training and research project in contemporary performing arts, addressed to dancers, actors, and performers. It is based on the study and interdisciplinary experience of current stage languages. It is a space for training, research, and shared transmission, conceived and directed by Adriana Borriello—dancer, choreographer, pedagogue—and curated by the ABCDaRe association.
Da.Re. stems from a vision that sees the performative act as an expressive whole, and the body and presence as a central tool beyond any specific language or assigned role. It places dance at the core—as the expression of the body and movement in all its forms.
Da.Re. is grounded in the idea of training as ongoing research, and of research as a tool for knowledge and continuous growth. It embraces both vertical and horizontal transmission, exploration and study, personal and collective education.
Da.Re. seeks to bridge the world of professional training and that of artistic research—a fundamental connection that enables mutual exchange, influence, and nourishment. It is a training program that aims to reflect and respond to its own time, evolving with it.
Da.Re. aims to develop a wide range of professional figures (dancers, performers, authors, dramaturgs, educators, or hybrid profiles), versatile artists capable of navigating the ever-changing artistic and cultural landscape, imagining new professional applications, and creating hybrid forms based on dialogue between languages.
Da.Re. Dance Research – Dynamic Systems for the Transmission and Research in Contemporary Performing Arts:
- Da.Re. evokes both the Italian verb dare (to give) and the English to dare—to offer experiences of growth, to dare experimentation;
- Dance Research underlines the spirit of inquiry that drives the project and the central role of dance within a multidisciplinary curriculum;
- Dynamic Systems reflects the systemic and generative nature of the program, which integrates training, research paths, satellite activities, and internships, fostering dialogue with society, the international scene, and the professional world;
- Transmission is seen as a collective growth process where all participants (students, teachers, artists, scholars, audience) benefit from the multidirectional and often chaotic movement of knowledge, influences, and perspectives;
- Research is the animating force of the project, embraced as a vital educational tool for personal and societal advancement. It establishes a way of being in the world where questions are central and individual growth becomes a collective value;
- Contemporary Performing Arts defines the program’s inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary nature: dance is the core, but it embraces and connects all performative languages, in dialogue with theoretical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions, and in tune with contemporary urgencies.
From June 20 to July 31, a group of students with mixed backgrounds (from performing arts, dance, theatre, cinema, visual arts, ecology, theoretical and humanities studies) will engage in a series of learning modules led by diverse artists and instructors.
Several public activities will be proposed, offering different formats—lectures, open studios, studio visits, masterclasses—to give access to the often hidden practices of artists and students:
- Lectures: conversations or presentations featuring an artist and a moderator, starting from the artist’s research and opening up to broader themes, historical moments, and aesthetic questions. They may be dialogue-based and/or include multimedia content.
- Open studios: work-in-progress showings, performed in a shareable format.
- Studio visits: open rehearsal time when the public is invited to observe work in development.
- Masterclasses: participatory practices led by an artist/instructor, supported by students, and offered to the community. These may be open to all or targeted at specific groups (e.g., professionals or particular audiences).
To participate in public events or for more information, please write to dare.danceresearch@abcdare.it.
AB Dance Research, founded in 2018 and directed by Adriana Borriello, works in the fields of production, education, and dissemination, creating performances and training programs such as Da.Re. Dance Research, and collaborating with national and international institutions and organizations.
Borriello, dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue, graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Danza and Maurice Béjart’s Mudra school and is among the founders Rosas. Alongside the creation of works presented at major festivals worldwide, she carries out an intense teaching activity. In 2022 she was awarded the Ivo Chiesa Prize for her career.