El Beso de la Abeja
(THE KISS OF THE BEE)
“No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
“EL BESO DE LA ABEJA”, The Kiss of the Bee celebrates the beauty of our planet and the value of bees to our livelihood.
The Latin Ballet of Virginia will not provide in-person field trips and performances for our Winter Season 2020-2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“EL BESO DE LA ABEJA”, The Kiss of the Bee”, A Dance theatre work in collaboration with Spanish composer, Adolfo AdVero, artistic director, Ana Ines King from Colombia, and international Spanish choreographers and renown flamenco artists, Antonio Hidalgo Paz, Domingo Ortega and Francisco Mesa “El Nano”.
The choreography combines Contemporary dance, authentic flamenco form, ritual dances from the Amazon and the Caribbean regions dance techniques, accompanied by literature and Photo/video elements.
The bees place in our world is important beyond our understanding. Without them, the development of life on earth, and conditions for human development may not have existed. These conditions are the appearance of the flower bearing plants and pollinators, with the bees, being the crown jewel of the pollinators.
The matriarchal group organization of a queen and thousands of female worker bees and male drones have had to adapt and overcome all the conditions of change that can happen over 100,000,000 year period of time.
Only one queen lives in a given hive. Queen bees are made not born and most of the reason for this appears to be her diet of royal jelly. The Queens fight to the death until only one remains.
The sun is indispensable for their life! Bees need the sun as a reference point in navigation and communication through their dance language. The queen bee is the heart and soul of the honey bee colony. She is the reason for nearly everything the rest of the colony does.
““And now you ask in your heart,
How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from what which is not good?
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is a pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For the bee a flower is the fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And for both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
People…be in your pleasures like flowers and the bees.””