Kor’sia

Photo: Paul Rodriguez

Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo lead the Madrid-based Kor’sia collective as directors and choreographers, along with researcher and co-founder Giuseppe Dagostino and Professor of Performing Arts Agnès López-Río as artistic advisors. The project grew out of a desire to use the body as a means to transcend verbal communication. Kor’sia’s visionary creations include film, photography, literature and sculpture and invite the audience to immerse themselves in all-encompassing experiences. About their 2019 performance Siciliana, The Theatre Times wrote: “Kor’sia’s choreographers are masters at creating a rich visual effect full of movement complexity and polyphony through [the dancers’ bodies].”

For the Kor’sia collective, the arts and specifically the arts of movement, as their competence, are the only representations that manage to transmit the human world, everything created by our societies: tradition, society, culture …, in a way that no other cognitive skill achieves.
Therefore, the objective of this  collective is based on the creation of artistic devices whose epicenter is located in the body and that proposes a reflection on the possible gestation of individual and collective spaces, which can provide new access to ways of being and being. in the world through the living arts.
Currently, Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo, are the directors and choreographers of the project, where they collaborate together with the Performing Arts researcher and co-founder, Giuseppe Dagostino and the Professor of Performing Arts Agnès López-Río as artistic advisor.
KOR’SIA has been selected as one of the twenty emerging companies from the Aerowaves Europe network in 2019 and has toured with its creations at international festivals,and  had been invited to create site specific works with renowned cultural places, in France, Spain, Italy, Panama, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Israel, USA.

Antonio de Rosa,Born in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy.
Mattia Russo born in Atripalda (Avellino) Italy,
both 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:
Compañía Nacional de Danza,(Spain) Víctor Ullate Ballet (Spain),Teatro Massimo(Italy), Konzert Theater Bern, (Switzerland),Luzern Theatre, (Switzerland), Of Curious Nature Bremen (Germany) Opéra National du Rhin (France) Verve (UK)  Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (Germany),Opéra Grand Avignon (France),Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Germany)

Together they receive numerous awards including:
FEDORA Prizes Biennale Award (VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2023)
Positano International Dance Festival Leonide Massine’
1 Prize International Choreography Competition NEW YORK-BURGOS,
2nd Prize Certamen Choreographic de Madrid. Madrid, Spain
2 Prize Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. Copenhagen, Denmark 2015
1 Prize 21st Concours Chorégraphique Contemporain Jeunes Compagnies, France.
1 Prize Résidence Création 2015 Conseil Régional de Bourgogne & Synodales. Sens, France.
1 Prize Young Choreographers’ Competition Bordeaux National Opera’s Ballet, the Malandain Ballet Biarritz with the CCN Ballet de l’Opéra
national du Rhin .
1 Prize TANZPLATTFORM BERN | International dance festival and competition for choreographers.
Selects Aerowaves Twenty of the most promising emerging choreographers in Europe 2019/2020.