On Saturday 19 June, Casa Árabe in Madrid will be presenting the dance-theatre show by Alicia Soto-Hojarasca’s company, El jardín de las Hespérides (The Garden of the Hesperides), a Spanish-Moroccan project created by Alicia Soto after a process of research with Moroccan and Spanish women, between Casablanca and Valladolid. Numbered tickets. In Spanish.
The Hesperides, according to Greek mythology, were the nymphs in charge of looking after and watching over the sacred garden where the golden apples grew, fruits that granted immortality. Located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula or in the Moroccan Atlas, this prodigious garden symbolises the link between the two cultures. Through body language, movement and dance, the creator, choreographer, playwright and performer Alicia Soto recreates the rituals of the Hesperides, drawing on aesthetic and cultural elements typical of the Moroccan feminine imaginary: women in the hammam, women weavers, women who gather seaweed in the sea, illiterate women, educated women, young and old women, artists…
