In Toma de Tierra contemporary flamenco, dance, gestures and the most contemporary dramaturgies are hybridized to achieve a dance proposal that draws attention to the exhaustion that the Earth suffers, and that adapts to each space where it is represented. With her avant-garde and geometric language, the Córdoba dancer Melisa Calero presents a dialogue with the earth through gesture and word. Dance at the service of nature.

Grounding illuminates the concept of “earth” as a sacred element, as a powerful feminine energy of creation and a place of invocation and gestation of what we want/need. A place that provides us with roots, support and food.

Both on an empirical level, through science, and in many of the world’s religions, water is the origin of all living forms. With water as a starting point and inspiration, esparto as raw material and her transversal and artistic look at crafts, the winner of FLORA 2022 María Eugenia Diego (Kokon) presents a performance designed specifically for Hammam Al-Ándalus. An unrepeatable experience.

Craftsmanship is presented as a mediating agent of connection between plants and humans in the work of María Eugenia Diego, and it is from that concept that the most surprising creations emerge. The result can be seen in a performance on Sunday the 22nd, an activity whose tickets can be purchased at www.cordoba.hammalandalus.com.

In addition, the artist will share in the Hammam courtyard and openly, without the need for entry or prior registration, in the days before the performance (October 19, 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m.), her handmade sewing sessions of the esparto. An ancestral and self-absorbed work of connection with nature and with our past.

IMAE and Festival FLORA achieve a very particular symbiosis: that of the gardener, landscaper and botanical researcher in works of art Eduardo Barba and the choreographer and stage director Antonio Ruz. Both give voice and movement to the surprising reality of urban plants, in a new format that we call “dancing conference.”

Good Herbs tells us about all those plants that appear in the city, on its streets and sidewalks, on the facades and in the abandoned houses, and that remind us that the city was a countryside, and that we are the intruders, not them. With his close and didactic style, Eduardo Barba tells us the most beautiful stories of urban flora (plants that do the impossible so that their daughters grow in more fertile soils than the mother, roots that associate with certain microorganisms to overcome the toxicity of the medium…), and the Antonio Ruz Company turns his words into dance and movement, paying homage to the plasticity of nature’s forms. If sometimes the most surprising nature grows in a crack at the foot of a lamppost, on occasions like this perhaps the dance tells stories and draws concepts like the most elaborate of stories or essays.

The Historic Center Delegation of the City Council and La Juan Gallery propose an action in which ten artists from Córdoba and Madrid simultaneously execute ten performances in one square meter each, using their body, flowers and plant material as main tools. These actions—participatory, playful, everyday—are combined to offer a unique experience in the unparalleled environment provided by the Compass of San Francisco.

With Action per square meter La Juan Gallery presents a live art experience where art approaches a new audience. Its aim is to bring the living arts to a wider audience, often unfamiliar with the performative, in a fresh and surprising way.

The participating performers are Adrián Villén, Alexia Sayago, Carvento, Irene Lázaro, Jose Kino, Keita, Miguel Pimentel, Nacho Gamma, Paula Mira and Paz Alberta.