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Amor de Dios (God's Love)
María Pagés Company

Name: Amor de Dios (God's Love) María Pagés Company
Start: 2023-09-21T19:30
End: 2023-09-21T20:30
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Thursday / September 21 / 7:30 p.m.
75 min
€28 (amphitheater), €30 (front rows of the patio) and €32 (central patio)
MUN Theater
WORLD PREMIERE

María Pagés opens the theater season and the Museo en Danza cycle at the University of Navarra Museum with two brand-new pieces: Amor de Dios and Tierra Prometida.

Amor de Dios is a powerful autobiographical solo that shows the artist in all her truth.

Amor de Dios, that artistic terrain and place of learning, became a refuge for the young newcomer to Madrid, a kind of sacred fountain tailored to the infinite, free, and crazy teenage imagination of a dancer who suddenly discovers the vast breadth of the discipline she loves.

Amor de Dios, María Pagés's new creation, speaks to us of desire, ambition, will... without losing sight of those symbolic stones that we carry tied to our ankles and drag us down to hells whose existence is of our own invention.

The piece is built around dramatic scenes that are very powerful in their choreographic and musical conception. Words, rhythm, singing and melody, footwork and percussion, delicate voices and philosophical reflection construct a staging that incorporates live music, voice, and dance, creating an intimate and special space.

The artist will return to the Museum in October to share with the public another new creation, the result of an artistic residency at the MUN inspired by the exhibition A Promised Land: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Birth of Photography.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Direction: María Pagés and El Arbi El Harti
Choreography, musical direction, and costume design: María Pagés
Dramaturgy and lyrics: El Arbi El Harti
Music: Rubén Lebaniegos, David Moñiz, Sergio Menem
Lighting design: Dominique You
Sound: Enrique Cabañas
Stage manager: Alex Pintado
Performer: María Pagés
Vocals: Ana Ramón, Cristina Pedrosa
Guitar: Rubén Lebaniegos
Violin: David Moñiz
Percussion: Chema Uriarte

María Pagés

A creator born in Seville, of Catalan origin, adopted by Madrid and iconoclastic by nature, she has made flamenco dance her poetic homeland. Contemporaneity is tradition in constant motion and the source of the dynamism of our languages and ideas. Her creative contribution lies in her serenity in speaking without complexes in all languages and making them accept the mythical hospitality of flamenco.

Through her use of the fundamental codes of flamenco language and her research both within and outside of it, she has proven to be a pioneer in understanding flamenco as a living contemporary art form with an unusual capacity to engage in dialogue with its time. She is convinced that, in culture, dialogue and exchange enrich art and promote greater understanding and empathy among human beings.

Through the María Pagés Choreographic Center in Fuenlabrada and her Foundation, María Pagés carries out intensive work in the areas of creation, research, training, and promotion of dance and Spanish cultural heritage as a personal paradigm of social and civic commitment and solidarity action for the benefit of children, adolescents, gender, and vulnerable groups, such as children's hospitals, shelters for abused women, disability centers, etc.

The Arbi The Harti

A Hispanist, poet, and playwright committed to culture and, in particular, to heritage, which he considers to be an inexhaustible source that nourishes all contemporary culture aware of its significance.

Has published After Tangier (2003), The Gate of the Winds (2004), Immense Strait (2006), A Moroccan Ambition (2009), Utopia of the good place (2012), Desert utopia (2015), Dunes (2018), Memory in motion (2020), The Trials and Tribulations of Mary (Documentary, 2021) and The north is no longer possible (2022). He has also edited the Contemporary Spanish Literature collection.

In 2011, he began an intense creative collaboration with María Pagés and in 2016 he left his professorship at Mohamed V University in Rabat to devote himself full-time to the creation and management of projects at the Maria Pages Choreographic Center, which he founded in 2018 together with the Seville-based choreographer.

He has co-directed with María Pagés Utopia (2011), Children's joy (2013), Seven strokes and a path (2014), I, Carmen (2014), Listen to me with your eyes (2014), Don't let the day end (2015), Dance of the Hearts (2017), An ode to time (2018), Borders (2019), Black paradise (2020), The Trials and Tribulations of Sinbad the Sailor (2021), An ode to orange blossom (2021), From Scheherezade (2021), 94 Alcalá Street (2023), God's love (2023) and Promised land ( 2023)