Rome, on tour

Guided “à quatre mains” by the Italians Antonio De Rosa and Mattia Russo, the Spanish company Kor’sia, founded in Madrid in 2015, has revealed a rare blend of ingenuity, virtuosity, and theatrical instinct in confronting dilemmas of our age that still elude resolution. Their creations hover between speculation and prophecy, gazes cast backward with bodies resolutely leaning into the future. They have re-imagined the Romantic archetype of Giselle to question contemporary notions of love; and, in Mont Ventoux, invoked Petrarch’s ascent of the hill as a metaphor for returning to nature, to the elemental. Now, in their new work Simulacro—which shone this past  summer at the prestigious Venice Biennale Danza—they draw us into the unsettling erosion of reality itself, brought about by the ...