Kor'sia Company. The Lamb

The Lamb is the new choreographic work of the company Kor'sia, a work in progress that shows the current man, lacking of guides and trapped by the tedium of European culture.

Sacrifice is the central theme of the work, which is conceived as a postmodern auto sacramental inspired by the final hour of a man who finds himself in a purgatory disguised as a non-place. There, the man recalls five fundamental events he undertook in his life, five sacrifices, and the choreographies are metaphors for the changing goals and yearnings of the human being: love, beauty, work, etc.

After the performance, there will be a discussion with the artists and Roger Salas, curator of the Coda en movimiento cycle and expert in dance and ballet.

General admission: 10 and 6€.

Strobe lights are used in the show.

THE SHOW

Approximate duration 60 minutes

"Only he who has known anguish rests, only he who descends into hell saves the loved one."

Soren Kierkegaard

In the same way as Kor'sia's previous work, Cul de Sacfocused on the current social and values crisis, The Lamb, once again resorts to contemporary dance to question us about the present, but emphasizing ontological questions.

The show speaks of lambs as metaphysical animals, or in other words, as individuals who cannot find a guide or shepherd to combat the boredom that takes root in the heart of European culture. The body appears as an ideal place to recreate the wounded spirit and repair it. Notions such as offering, work or atonement invite us to think of sacrifice.

Sacrifice is the central theme of The Lamb, which is conceived as a postmodern auto sacramental inspired by the final hour of a man who finds himself in a purgatory disguised as a non-place. There the man recalls five fundamental events he undertook in his life, five sacrifices. With this structure, the choreographies are metaphors for the changing goals and longings of the human being: love, beauty, work, etcetera.

ARTISTIC FILE

KOR'SIA

Kor'sia was born in 2012 from the need to communicate through the body, to become visible as creators and performers. Its trajectory has had promising results participating in international festivals in Spain, Italy, Denmark, Holland and France.

The company thus expresses the meaning of its work:

"We want to create and express our opinions and emotions and with them make people fall in love, make them think, give them a fresh and new experience.

In the age of speed, acceleration and uncertainty, we have been abandoning cultural constructions, forged in affection and emotionality, which have accompanied and stabilized us throughout time. The reflection in the dance of this abandonment, has been transforming it into an instrument that appears more and more drawn as a mere technical, virtuous and image product.

We think that this chosen path leads us to the loss of the real meaning of the arts of movement, which in our opinion is nothing more or less than the transmission of cultural meanings that build us as human beings, using the body as a fundamental tool.

That is why we wish to consider in our creative process the reconstruction of the essential connections we found between body, mind, emotion, movement and cultural meaning, taking up some lost paths".

MEMBERS OF KOR'SIA

Mattia Russo (choreographer / dancer). In 2008 he graduated in dance at the school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, directed by Frederic Olivieri and since then he has been part of the Ballet of the Generalitat Valenciana, Introdans and in 2012 he joined the National Dance Company under the artistic direction of José Carlos Martínez.

Diego Tortelli (choreographer / dancer). He studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has been part of several companies such as Balletto dell 19Esperia, Luna Negra in Chicago or Le Ballet National de Marseille. She is currently working for the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich and as an assistant for The Bakery.

Antonio de Rosa (choreographer / dancer). He began his ballet studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Roma. He has worked at the Scuola di Ballo Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Fiorentino (Florence) and at the Arena di Verona. In 2009 he joined the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he remained until 2011, when he joined the National Dance Company under the direction of José Carlos Martínez.

Giuseppe Dagostino (playwright). Graduated from the Academia Alla Scala in Milan. He was hired by the National Dance Company, working under the direction of Nacho Duato and José Carlos Martínez. In recent years he has worked with international choreographers such as Angelin Preljocaj, Jiri Kylian, Matz Ek, Johan Inger and William Forsythe.

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