KAFKA
Kafka by Antonio de Rosa & Mattia Russo (Kor’sia) is a surreal, visceral journey through the Kafkaesque - a world where absurdity meets powerlessness, and escape feels impossible. Set in the liminal space of a petrol station at night, the piece explores Franz Kafka’s legacy not through a single text, but through his recurring themes: failure, alienation, and systemic entrapment.
Commissioned by Hessisches Staatsballett to mark the 100th year of Kafka’s death, the choreography merges street aesthetics with theatrical surrealism, drawing on elements of The Metamorphosis and Kafka’s own troubled life. With flashlights, animal-human hybrids, and movement that veers from explosive to restrained, Kafka offers a bold, atmospheric translation of the author’s inner and outer worlds—bridging literature, dance, and the haunting relevance of Kafka’s vision today.
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 c.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."
Trailer for 'Mont Ventoux' Premiere (2023)