DREAMERS
WORLD PREMIERE
July 5, 2024, Korzo Den Haag
ABOUT THE CREATION
In any corner, where the freshly sown wheat still dances in the wind and the sun bids farewell in a warm embrace on any spring afternoon, a place in the world can be found. Where, like seeds in fertile soil, it is possible to cultivate dreams and aspirations, to experience paradoxes and contradictions and thus begin the crossing. An uncertain journey back and forth, forward and backward, that builds a future that is still invisible to our eyes.
With Dreamers, Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa/KOR’SIA offers us an ode to youth, a hymn to the ephemeral beauty of life.
Our only chance to transform the path towards a future of peace and fraternity.
ARTISTIC TEAM:
CONCEPT, DIRECTION, SCENOGRAPHY en COSTUMES: Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa/KOR’SIA
CHOREOGRAPHY: Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo in collaboration with the performers
PERFORMERS:5 dancers and a bicycle: Viola Busi, Conner Chew, Gabriele Rolle, Nova Valkenhoff, Samuel van der Veer
DRAMATURGY:Agnès López-Río
MUSIC:New composition by Alejandro Da Rocha
LIGHT:Yuka Hisamatsu
NDT ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER:Ander Zabala
FOTO: ©Joris-Jan Bos
DURATION: 26 minutes
GABRIELE ROLLE ABOUT DREAMERS:
“With Dreamers we want to crystallize youth and its endless sense of wonder, its questions and desires, its joys and challenges.
We do so by creating a universe in which the present moment is stretched beyond its limits, and in which past and future become the physical boundaries of space.
Movement becomes a means of discovery, questioning our surroundings and experiencing things like for the first time.
This piece feels to me like a real journey, both physically and emotionally. It is a journey we’ve all embarked on at some point in our lives, guided by our senses, our perception and our intuition.
Creating this piece has been an absolute pleasure. I am extremely grateful for the people I’m sharing this world with – my colleagues, who inspire me every day with their sheer beauty, and Antonio and Mattia, who so graciously push us to dare, to feel, and to dream.
I feel the heat of a summer night on my skin. The wind gently moves my hair as I’m biking through a golden wheat field. Its smell fills my nostrils. Five beautiful stars shine in night sky.”
SAMUEL VAN DER VEER ABOUT DREAMERS:
“As I am leaving the company, and I am reflecting on my time here; I think firstly of all the incredible, inspirational people that I have met and the lasting impact they have made on me. I think ‘Dreamers’ mirrors that journey on a small scale: it emphasizes that the connections and interactions we make with people are the most important and impactful thing we can do.
All choreographic material is first of all based on connection and interaction; with each other, with the music, with the space, with the future, the past and even with the bike. We imagine what the field we find ourselves in smells like, what the temperature of the wind would be and what it would be like when nighttime falls and we watch the stars together…
Antonio & Mattia are such wonderful and open humans and they themselves are natural masters at connecting with others. They continue to encourage us to find where else in the piece interaction can exist. Which I in turn, hope to take with me far beyond the wheat field.
I am so happy and grateful to have added Antonio, Mattia and Agnès to the list of inspirational (and hilarious) people that I met during this chapter of my life. Thank you for this blessing of a process.
Non mi dimenticherò mai la smella di campo.”
