HOMAGE to the WHITE TARA
On the occasion of the II Congress on SOUND, MUSIC & WISDOM in Arts, Science, Philosophy and Spirituality, organised by the Centro Lusitano de Unificação Cultural.
(Lisbon, November 2017).

Tārā is a deity of Tantric meditation, whose practice is used by the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism practitioners  to develop certain qualities and to understand external, internal and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness. Tara is, in fact, the generic name of a set of Buddhas or bodhisattvas of similar appearance. We may understand them as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often regarded as metaphors of Buddhist virtues. Tara is known as the "mother of liberation" and considered the Mother of all the Buddhas.  Tibetans usually think of Tara as having 21 manifestations. In each form she takes a different color — like Blue Tara and Black Tara — and offers a different energy or virtue to help us on our spiritual paths. Of these 21 Taras, the two most popular are Green Tara and White Tara. 

Tara is closely related to Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara), the Bodhisattva of Compassion. One story of her origin says that she was born from Chenrezig’s compassionate tears.  People also think of her as the female manifestation of Chenrezig, or his consort. Though all the manifestations of Tara share the characteristic of compassion through this connection to Chenrezig, it is White Tara who is most closely linked to his essential compassionate nature. Her pure compassion for our suffering, which is thought to be greater even than a mother’s love for her child, is symbolized in images of White Tara by her white color. Her whiteness also indicates the “undifferentiated truth of the Dharma. In comparison to Green Tara, who is shown seated with one leg on the ground, ready to come to our defense, White Tara is seated in the more meditative diamond lotus position, with both legs folded under her, and her feet facing skyward. White Tara has 7 eyes — with an eye in her forehead, and one on each hand and foot — symbolizing her compassionate vigilance to see all the suffering of the world.
ARAWI
Premiere at the Inauguration of the University of Higher Studies in Choreosophy (U.C.)
(Milan, July 2017)

Arawi means "poem" or "chant" in the Quechua language. Although this performance is open to the public's interpretation, it manifests above all as an alchemical dance linked to the representation of the main stages of the feminine experience in this world, from birth, through fertility, until the realization of wisdom.
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Dance for TARA
III International Danza Duende Festival
​(Serpa, July 2016)

Offering to Tara on the streets of Serpa.
Five performances dedicated to Tara, associating her with the 5 Wisdom Energies of the Vajrayana Buddhism.

​​First day, morning: Blue Tara, Vajra; second day, noon: Golden Tara, Ratna; third day, afternoon: Red Tara, Padma; fourth day, night: Green Tara, Karma; fifth day, morning: White Tara, Buddha.

​LEVANTE 
Basilica of Our Lady of Avioth, France
(July 2014)
​
Levante is a personal and impersonal "cante",
it is origin and longing,
it is sounds, ancient or present
it is thousands of pieces of mine, yours or theirs.

It is golden letters, forgotten cries, deep and obstinate whistles.

It is sediments that the strong winds drag and which dance in the air in all directions; shapes in the sand drawn by currents of air; dunes and bushes with no fixed place, molding themselves unwittingly by the whims of nature!

Levante of the Rising Sun that cleanses my soul, removing any prints...
as in a virgin coast where nobody has stepped on in years.

(Note: Levante is an easterly wind very strongly felt in Spain in some moments of the year.)