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Correfoc (fire running) 21st June
Correfoc (fire running) 21st June
by Martin the artist » Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:27 am
Next Wednesday will be the Carrefoc - fire running - from the church at 10pm ending at the Hoguera near the Reina Sofia bridge.
Then the burning of the hoguera will take place from 11pm
Then the burning of the hoguera will take place from 11pm
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Re: Correfoc (fire running) 21st June
by Martin the artist » Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:08 am
Don't forget the Correfocs & burning of the hoguera on Wednesday night.
The CORREFOCS, by the Dimonis Emplomats of Beneixama, will tour the streets of Rojales, with the music of pipe and drums, jumping and dancing between sparklers and fireworks.
Participating in a Correfocs is quite an experience. It is carried out at night to be able to enjoy the spectacle of lights and colours that firecrackers and fire give us.
It is known that this show comes from the medieval street theatre. This dance represents the fight between good and evil and in it, the figure of the devil was caricatured, appearing capering and jumping through dances, songs and fire.
Many thanks to the artist and teacher Pablo Follana and to the ESO 4 students of the IES LA ENCANTÁ in Rojales who, based on our Legend of La Encantá, deconstruct the myth and turn her into a modern, educated and free woman, thanks to the education and changing laws.
"The idea arose after reviewing the ancestral legend of La Encantá that tells the story of a young Arab princess, whose father locked her up for life in the Cabezo Soler dungeon for being in love with a young Christian.
Legend says that once every 100 years, on the night of San Juan, a young man must come to rescue La Encantá from her captivity, lowering her in his arms until her feet touch the water of the river, but in the heavy descent, they monsters appear that scare them, and before arriving, the young man faints and is unable to dip the young woman's feet in the river water. Thus the curse is fulfilled, the princess Zulaida will return to confinement and the young man will die with his tongue out of her.
In the review of the legend by the students of 4th ESO of the La Encantá de Rojales Institute, they have realized the number of legends from other cultures where the woman is always punished, almost always for a reason beyond their responsibility, like jealousy, envy, a family punishment: The princesses locked in the tower,
punished to clean, to receive a curse that can only be broken if a man intervenes... And there is the proposal of the Encantá liberated, not by a man, but for having had access to reading and an education that makes her freer.
With a news more aware of the mandates of gender, xenophobia and freedom of worship. The princess ends up being one more student, perfectly functional within society, living with total freedom and without conditions imposed by her origin, nor by her current residence, nor by loving whoever she wants and however she wants, and without being a heavy burden. heavy for any man to bear"
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Re: Correfoc (fire running) 21st June
by Graham_Lynn » Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:46 am
The correfocs are most definitely an experience you will never forget!!
If this happened in the UK then Health & Safety would have to have spent 364 days prior to the event completing risk assessments. But hey this is Spain and the Spanish are completely crazy!
Make sure you follow the guidelines and go well covered up.
First one we went to we said - never again - but see you on Wednesday!
If this happened in the UK then Health & Safety would have to have spent 364 days prior to the event completing risk assessments. But hey this is Spain and the Spanish are completely crazy!
Make sure you follow the guidelines and go well covered up.
First one we went to we said - never again - but see you on Wednesday!
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