The origins of Igra go back to Jeux / Nijinsky, a work created by the Russo / Rosa team. It was a short piece, inspired by the creative process of Nijinsky himself. The creation process of Jeux / Nijinsky was so rich that upon finishing it, Kor’sia was left with the desire to continue exploring and expand upon the ideas that remained. Igra is the expansion of these themes, in which there are hardly any vestiges of its predecessor.

As is a common theme in Kor’sia’s work, visual power plays a decisive role in Igra. Without being a dance-based docudrama about that time and Nijinsky’s works, Igra has a wide-range of references, which appear in a subtle and intermittent way.

Electronic music is close to the rhythms of Russian dances, the inclusion of Chopin, a Polish composer, hints at the fact that although Nijinsky was born in Kiev and his sister Nijinska in Minsk, his family was Polish and the choreographer himself did not consider himself Russian. Metaphors are also present. Jeux is a game of tennis but the game he wants to talk about is seduction. Igra, in short, does not reproduce or recreate, but the spirits of the famous brothers dwell (perhaps happily) in it.