Compañía Chuscales & Mina Fajardo are coming back to TEATRO PARAGUAS
this Spring! TEATRO PARAGUAS is proud to welcome back one of their
favorite and most prolific FLAMENCO GROUPS, Compañía Chuscales &
Mina Fajardo. Mina Fajardo & Chuscales are award winning artists and
musical composers, whose shows are always original and exciting. Mina
Fajardo has once again created original choreography for this Spring's
show, aptly called Tree of life (Arbol de la Vida), illuminating the
tree of life through FLAMENCO. Mina has been pondering this
choreography for years, because for her, trees are the most important
plants on the earth. Life could not exist on earth without trees;
humans cannot live without trees. Trees produce oxygen and remove
carbon dioxide. Without trees, we wouldn't get any more cherry
blossoms in Spring, and since she was born in Japan, the Cherry
Blossoms have special meaning for Mina. Mina studied about trees when
she was a medical technology college student in Japan. When asked why
she felt this choreography was so important, she said, "Recently we
have had so many wildfires in the world…. I want to explain through
my dance, my FLAMENCO, how important trees are for all of us … “
She went on to say, “FLAMENCO IS LIKE A TREE, a tree is like
FLAMENCO. The tree of FLAMENCO IS LIKE THE FLAMENCO PALOS (different
musical forms in FLAMENCO) with many branches, but the main branches
are the Palos of Soleares, Seguiriyas,Tonas, Fandangos, Tangos, and
more. I believe each Palo has a family…. like Soleares connects to
Caña, Alborea, Bulerias, Cantiñas (Alegrias).” This show starts
with FLAMENCO PALO GRANAINA, composed by renown FLAMENCO GUITARIST
CHUSCALES, who comes from Granada, Spain, and the poem Arbolé,
Arbolé by Federico García Lorca (Granada, 1898–1936) who is
considered one of the greatest poets and playwrights of the twentieth
century. The poem (along with two others) will be performed by Argos
MacCallum, who received a standing ovation during the company's most
recent concert Gypsy Moon & Stars just a few weeks ago. Mr. MacCallum
has been featured in many movies, including Seraphim Falls, The Lone
Ranger, and Appaloosa, to name a few. This year's FESTIVAL FEATURES
DANCERS MINA FAJARDO, Janira Cordova, & Sveta Backhaus: Trees in
Spring by all 3 dancers, Trees in Summer by Sveta Backhaus, Trees in
Fall by Mina Fajardo, and Trees in Winter by Janira Cordova. THE CREW:
Artistic Director, Choreographer, Playwright: Mina Fajardo Music
Director & Composer: Chuscales Actor & Poetry Readings: Argos
MacCallum Dancers: Mina Fajardo, Janira Cordova, Sveta Backhaus
Lighting Design/Booth Operator: Jeff Tarnoff
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