The Garden of the Hesperides 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.

A dance show by: Alicia Soto-Hojarasca Company
Direction and Choreography: Alicia Soto