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IN SEARCH OF HUMANITY

Children leap joyfully out of a field of ruins, the promise of a dawn of fragile beauty: The Magic Flute. A woman of supernatural origin searches for her shadow and finds her soul among humans who are all too human: The Woman without a Shadow. On an island steeped in ancestral rituals, a “last mother” forces the entry of the terminally ill to the realm of the dead under the eyes of her adopted daughter: Accabadora, a world premiere. Meanwhile, another woman embarks on her final journey into the night as a round of fraternal and festive dancers oppose their vital force to the inexorable disappearance of all things: Requiem. Finally, a runaway slave hears the voices of a liberating revolution in the forest: El Cimarrón.

What path in life leads us to the essence of our humanity? For those who grow up in worlds of uncertainty, in which civilizations discover that they are mortal, in which dazzling utopias sometimes turn into dangerous ideologies, and in which light and shadow seem to switch places, the question could hardly be more acute. [...]

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