SYNOPSIS
Migrate… sometimes for pleasure, almost always out of necessity.
“The groove of a flight”, based on the piece Swallows, is inspired by some women from the Aragonese Pyrenees who left home every winter a century ago, exploring all meanings of migrating.
This work immerses us in an imaginary world of birds and women, full of lights and shadows, transporting us on a journey full of tenacity, courage and resistance, beauty, spirit of improvement and freedom
With ingenuity and imagination we will get some wings to fly with the body.
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION
During the second half of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th, multitudes of women from the Aragonese and Navarrese valleys (Spain) migrated every winter to the French towns of Mauleón and Oloron Saint Marie to work in the factories of espadrilles, for this reason, the French called them “Les Hirondelles”, The Swallows.
Other women, exclusively from Ansó (Huesca), traveled almost the entire the Spanish Peninsula selling “medicinal herbs”, collected in the Pyrenees, and “Swiss Tea”, which they smuggled in from France. These Ansó’s women always traveled on foot, in the company of only women and dressed in their typical costumes. His clothes caught the attention of the most famous writers and painters, coming to star in hundreds of articles and paintings.
“Las Golondrinas” are an extraordinary example of women entrepreneurs who supported the family economy without appearing in any official document, their history being a unique case in Spain, however today practically forgotten.
ARTISTIC DATA
Idea, choreography and interpretation: Violeta Borruel.
Music: various artists.
Photography: José Ramón Bonjoch
Costume Design: Violeta Borruel.
Duration: 30 minutes.
Dance work created for unconventional spaces.
