FEDORA - Kor’sia Captivates Antwerp with Sold-Out Performances of Mont Ventoux

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Kor’sia Captivates Antwerp with Sold-Out Performances of Mont Ventoux

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10 December 2025

Antwerp / Belgium

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On 14 and 15 November 2025, the Spanish–Italian collective Kor’sia made its long-awaited debut at Antwerp’s DE SINGEL with Mont Ventoux, FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2023 Winner, performing two completely sold-out shows, as part of the EUROPALIA España Festival.

The FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize is supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, in collaboration with Opera Europa. The FEDORA Prizes competition is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission.

Inspired by Francesco Petrarch’s 1336 ascent of Mont Ventoux, often seen as a symbolic awakening of European humanism, the piece reimagines the poet’s journey for the 21st century. Choreographers Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa craft a hypnotic landscape where nine dancers navigate a world in flux, moving between urban and natural terrains behind an imposing glass wall that hints at a future just out of reach.

Blending striking visual design with Kor’sia’s signature physical intensity, Mont Ventoux reflects on humanity’s urgent need to “wake from lethargy,” rebuild shared values, and re-centre our relationship with nature. In Antwerp, this message resonated powerfully: audiences witnessed a kinetic, dreamlike odyssey that bridges past and present to imagine a more hopeful tomorrow.

Kor’sia continues to affirm its place as one of Europe’s most forward-thinking dance companies, using the expressive force of the body to question, transform, and inspire.

Mont Ventoux by Kor'sia - Winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2023

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.

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