MONT VENTOUX
Inspired by Petrarch's Ascent of Mont Ventoux, the KOR'SIA collective seeks answers from the humanist past for the conflicts being proposed to us by a 21st-century
paradigm shift: the construction of an individual capable of rebuilding themselves and the planet.
Everything is overcome by obstinate work.
Francesco Petrarca (1336)
With Mount Ventoux, the Kor'sia Collective revisits the work that Francesco Petrarca wrote in 1336, Ascent to Mont Ventoux, apparently just a letter recounting the ascent
to a mountain in any other April afternoon.Through an ascent disguised in simplicity, Petrarca offers an alternative to the faith of the world, an ascending journey for
humanity to elude and leave behind the dark years of the Middle Age; bringing about a paradigmatic shift to the world to come, humanism.
As the Kor'sia Collective perceives it, this story, Mont Ventoux, still offers us the possibility of learning from the past, which can be transformed into a better experience of
the present, and therefore in the construction of a better future for all and all.
Today, we, the people who live together on the planet, seven centuries later and in greater acceleration, typical of the times we live in, we also perceive the urgent need
for a change. We are facing the destabilization of the structures that up to now supported us as a community and as humanity, and witnessing the transformation of a too
uncertain future.Petrarca, already warned: "We have to wake up from lethargy, get out of the molds!". Under this mantra, the Kor'sia Collective wants to collaborate in
giving voice again to these words that today resonate with importante:
Ascend the mountain.
Recover our values.
Do a mass philanthropic exercise.
Put humanity and the nature that precedes back in the center. What a better way to do so than through dancing bodies.
ARTISTIC TEAM:
Country: Spain-Italy
Duration: 1 hour (without intermission) 8 interpreters
IDEA AND DIRECTION: Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa
CHOREOGRAPHY: Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa in collaboration with the performers DANCERS Benoît Couchot, Angela Dematte, Samuel Dilkes, Emilie Leriche, Helena Olmedo, Andrew Scott, Dovydas, Strimaitis, Ana Van Tendeloo and Edoardo Brovardi DRAMATURGY : Agnès López-Río
SCENOGRAPHY : Amber Vandenhoeck in collaboration with Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa/ Kor'sia
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Alejandro Da Rocha. Original Song: Raquel Tort Vázquez
COSTUME: Costume design and creative direction Luca Guarini. In collaboration with Aitor Goikoetxea, Levi's (all denim).
PRODUCTION: Gabriel Blanco and Paola Villegas, Andrea Mendez (Spectare)
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Meritxell Cabanas
COPRODUCTION:
Mount Ventoux, is a full-evening performance created by Kor'sia Collective with the support of :
Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center (Spain), Tanzplattform Rhein Main (Germany),
Hessisches Staatsballet (Germany),
Roma Europa Festival (Italy),
The Watermill Center (USA),
Festival Bolzano Danza - Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento (Italy), Grec Festival- Barcelona Festival (Spain)
Tero Saarinen Company (Fi ),
Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Madrid (Spain)
OperaEstate Festival Veneto (Italy)
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Dance Prize Winner 2023
with the support of
Van Cleef & Arpels
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport -
Government of Spain, Community of Madrid, City Hall of Madrid,
European Festival.
Kor'sia raises its own bar with a carefully crafted and
successful production inspired by Petrarch, a theatrical
achievement of merit. The evolutions of the highly intoned,
rhythmic ensemble become spiritually uplifting.
EL PAIS-ROGER SALAS-
The dance performed by the Kor'sia performers stands out for a
motoric mastery that touches the heights of expressiveness. The
dancers seem to be aware of every muscular fibre of their bodies,
activated according to uncommon dynamics and transitions from one
movement to the next in the name of extreme lightness and
reactivity.Kor'sia's performance lights up the stage of the Romaeuropa
Festival. Marta Mele-GBOPERA
An infinite grandeur that expresses in its particular Mont Ventoux, the
Kor'sia collective;
A choreography that brings to the present day what Petrarch's
thought was so radical, which, like Plato in one of his Letters,
stresses the intimate truth of "face to face". Now the walls are made
of glass to turn us into things, shop windows with a painted
mountain in the background that could well be the one that obsessed
Cézanne all his life -Sainte Victoire- or the one drawn thirty-six times
by Katsushika Hokusai; that goes up, down and unfolds like every
dancer. In the mist of the present. With the music of a wind that has
no end.
Jaime M. de los Santos -EL CONFIDENCIAL
Mont Ventroux is a beautiful metaphor for the horrible fast-paced life
we lead. Mont Ventroux appears clear, accurate and pertinent to the
moment we live in. The ingenious scenographic device, that gigantic
stained glass window from which a mountain can be seen, cleverly
divides the space into two stages: that of the speed and vertigo of
the city and that of nature and contemplation, to which the two
forms of dance and rhythms of the choreography correspond
respectively: crisp, virtuosic and precise on one side; lyrical, emotive,
slow and quasi-neo-classical on the other.
OMAR KAN- SUSYQ MAGAZINE
