Orange blossom

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ABOUT OR PROJECT

Azahar is a project that integrates elements of video, dance and architecture from the 11th century, to represent in a symbolic way or time the links that may exist between the past and the present. In a dialogue between two women, the aroma of the laranjeira flower, orange blossom, is used as a metaphor to rescue a direct connection with the past, where, through the e_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_o olfato, these two women connect with remote words and emotions. 

 

The unconscious dwells or deepest of the human being; a sem-fim of memories and riches, which transports us to a state of timelessness. Assim, numerosos escritores contemporâneos, refletiram em suas narrações: anseios, desejos e nostalgias que, para além do pensamento saturado, são impulsionadas por this sensation, as subtle as inata. «It will be on the surface of my clear consciousness that is a memory, that ancient moment that, at the attraction of an identical moment, feared to request so long, to eat and rise no fundo do meu ser?», pergunta-se Proust to drink a xícara de qualum bolinhogiu.

 

The City of Granada in Spain (chosen for the realization of Orange Blossom), an important cultural mestiçagem berço, offers the passer-by the opportunity to perceive the weight of history without the need for it to be reflected and embedded_cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_chronologically and specifically. Let us choose assim, or Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo, as a symbol of a set of historical places that us conecte_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58,converted agora emritobad_58 presente, e, que deseje ser narrado e ritualizado por meio de uma_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_mediadora artistic manifestation between or deeper and exteriority (emotion-space): to dance.

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EQUIP

Performers: Camille Lejeune and Mari Paula

Choreography: Mari Paula

Video:  Jaime Walfisch, Teresa Rodríguez e Angel Martín

Address of photography: Jaime Walfisch 

​Music: Peter Broderick - Violin Solo, No. I

Concept: Angela Donat and Mari Paula

Production: Adrián Torices e Ángela Donat

Executive production: Anaquel de Torreón Cultural Association

Acknowledgements:  Contradanza Granada e Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo

Duration: 5 minutes