Sometimes, history can change in the course of a hike. The ascent of Mont Ventoux by the Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch in 1336 is commonly considered the beginning of the European Renaissance. Inspired by his text, KOR’SIA set out for a journey in search for a renewed conception of humanity that meets the challenges of our time. Another future dawns on the other side of the huge glass wall that separates the stage – but how do we get there? “MONT VENTOUX” is a virtuosic epic for nine dancers, a traversal of countless urban and rural sceneries, a tireless effort towards transformation, and an encounter with unexpected bizarre beings.

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Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo graduated in classical and contemporary dance, at the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
Antonio de Rosa began his career as a dancer at the Maggio Fiorentino, the Arena di Verona and the Teatro alla Scala, Compañía Nacional de Danza de España.

Mattia Russo began his career at the Choreographic Center of the Generalitat Valenciana, in Spain, to then work for Introdans, then for the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid, where they grow and develop with the best choreographers on the international scene.

In January 2015, they create the KOR’SIA collective in Madrid together with Giuseppe Dagostino and Agnes Lopez Rio.
Since 2017, de Rosa and Russo have concentrated their activity in KOR’SIA as Artistic Directors, Choreographers and Dancers.
As choreographers Antonio and Mattia had been invited to create for other companies as e.g. Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain), Luzern Theatre (Switzerland) and Opéra National du Rhin (France).
Together they receive numerous choreographic awards including e.g. FEDORA Prizes, Biennale Award and 1 Prize TANZPLATTFORM BERN and many more.
De Rosa und Russo consider it essential to develop a space focused directly on learning, giving master classes and workshops on creative processes, in conservatories, and universities, such as the Accademia Nazionale di Roma (IT), Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila in Madrid (ES), Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK), Tsoying Senior High School (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) among others.

Agnès López-Río is a professor of Analysis and Practice of the Contemporary Dance Repertory at the ‘María de Ávila’ Higher Conservatory of Dance in Madrid, dance playwright, performer, artistic advisor, author and researcher, she is a member of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain from 2021. As a dance performer since 2002 she has been part of various European companies. She joined the Kor’sia Collective in 2015.

[Source: tanzimaugust.de]

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