The vice president of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo, attended this afternoon the performance of the play ‘Merina. Spanish gold. Oteyza’ at the Gran Teatro Caixa Bank Príncipe Pío in Madrid. The function, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, is committed to a culture capable of linking tradition and avant-garde.
The show fuses fashion, dance, music and plastic arts over 80 minutes, which narrates the process that merino wool undergoes from its origin, as a raw material, to its conversion into a fashion piece. It is a function that also claims a natural relationship between man and animals, such as the one that has traditionally been had.
‘Merina’ is the result of the joint work of the fashion designers Oteyza (Paul García de Oteyza and Caterina Pañeda), the dancer and choreographer Antonio Najarro, the multidisciplinary artist Tagore González, and the Priamo studio, responsible for the scenography of the show.
The work “will carry the name of Castilla y León throughout the world,” highlighted the vice president of the Board. ‘Merina, the Spanish Gold’ premiered on September 26 at the Miguel Delibes Cultural Center in Valladolid and has already been performed, among other venues, at Valencia Fashion Week and Bilbao Fashion Week. After the Madrid performance, the show will travel in February to the Teatro Coliseu in Porto and, in March, to the Le Rocher de Palmer theater in Bordeaux.
‘Merina, the Spanish Gold. Oteyza’ pays tribute to an outstanding moment in Spanish and Castilian history by placing the spotlight on Merino wool, the result of a cross between North African and Spanish sheep that generated a species extraordinarily gifted for wool production.
Merino wool was also the reason for the founding of the Mesta, one of the first expressions of what we today call civil society, and which will celebrate its 750th anniversary in 2023.
2024-01-23 20:20:18
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