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The Garden of the Hesperides
June 19, 20218:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe garden (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
8:30 p.m.
6 euros: general entrance ticket to the premises.
5 euros if purchased online. Tickets sold on this website up to the day
of the event at 2:00 p.m., or until sold out. Those tickets which have
not been sold online will be sold as of one hour before the event at the
entrance to Casa Árabe’s premises (in cash or by credit card) for the
price of 6 euros (5 euros for officially unemployed persons, students of
Casa Árabe’s Language Center and Youth Card holders. You must
demonstrate this status by showing the proper document in order to
receive the discount). Assigned seating with tickets.
In Spanish.
Casa Árabe is hosting this theatrical dance show by Alicia
Soto-Hojarasca’s dance company. It will be taking place in Madrid on
Saturday, June 19. Tickets are now being sold online.
This is a Spanish-Moroccan project created by Alicia Soto after a process of performing research with Moroccan and Spanish women in both Casablanca and Valladolid.
According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs in charge of caring for and watching over the sacred garden where the golden apples grew, fruits that conferred immortality. Located somewhere in the south of the Iberian Peninsula or in the Moroccan Atlas, this prodigious garden symbolizes the link between the two cultures. Through body language, movement and dance, artist, choreographer, playwright and performer Alicia Soto recreates the rituals of the Hesperides, drawing on aesthetic and cultural features from the Morocco’s feminine imaginary: women in the hammam, women weavers, women who gather seaweed in the ocean, illiterate women, educated women, young and old women, female artists... Soto evokes an intimate, universal space, as she refers us to the personal experience of all women, no matter what their status or ethnicity, from any time and place in the world. Each can inhabit that space and rejoice in the prodigious strength it holds within.
Alicia Soto earned her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She is a dancer, choreographer, stage director and teacher. In 1994, she founded the professional dance and contemporary creation company Alicia Soto-Hojarasca, through which she has staged nearly thirty shows ever since. As a teacher, she has taught numerous courses, workshops, seminars and conferences at various national and international centers and festivals. She has received many different acknowledgments and has been nominated for several Max Awards.
A dance show by: Alicia Soto-Hojarasca Company
Direction and Choreography: Alicia Soto
According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs in charge of caring for and watching over the sacred garden where the golden apples grew, fruits that conferred immortality. Located somewhere in the south of the Iberian Peninsula or in the Moroccan Atlas, this prodigious garden symbolizes the link between the two cultures. Through body language, movement and dance, artist, choreographer, playwright and performer Alicia Soto recreates the rituals of the Hesperides, drawing on aesthetic and cultural features from the Morocco’s feminine imaginary: women in the hammam, women weavers, women who gather seaweed in the ocean, illiterate women, educated women, young and old women, female artists... Soto evokes an intimate, universal space, as she refers us to the personal experience of all women, no matter what their status or ethnicity, from any time and place in the world. Each can inhabit that space and rejoice in the prodigious strength it holds within.
“From a past rooted in pain I rise; [...] into a startlingly clear new day, I rise. I rise.”
Alicia Soto earned her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She is a dancer, choreographer, stage director and teacher. In 1994, she founded the professional dance and contemporary creation company Alicia Soto-Hojarasca, through which she has staged nearly thirty shows ever since. As a teacher, she has taught numerous courses, workshops, seminars and conferences at various national and international centers and festivals. She has received many different acknowledgments and has been nominated for several Max Awards.
A dance show by: Alicia Soto-Hojarasca Company
Direction and Choreography: Alicia Soto
Cast: Lorenza di Calogero, Paloma Calderón, Sanae Assif, Ester Lozano, Alicia Soto