This study has focused on developing strategies in the region that promote Mudejar identity and strengthen professional networks through research, creation, and artistic dissemination in the fields of musical and performance art. It has also designed initiatives to facilitate the programming of future performances in the region. The project is based on a concept of heritage that encompasses traditions, customs, and other artistic expressions that are part of the collective memory.
The project is based on the idea that the performing arts—arts of time and space, of memory and celebration—have the potential to connect the past with the present, develop the contemporary imagination of a territory, and, at the same time, nourish myths, figures, and motifs of local tradition.
Its contribution to local, economic and sustainable development has been studied in the following areas:
- Economic benefits derived from greater territorial attractiveness (the entire cultural sector) and innovative drive (creative industries);
- Strengthening social cohesion through expressive forms in keeping with the cultural diversity of the population;
- Education and awareness-raising of the population on social and environmental issues (e.g., sustainability and nature preservation) through the performing arts in all their creative forms;
- Control and reduction of your own environmental footprint.
The study has focused on fieldwork and the study of a vast amount of archival material and bibliography on scenic Mudejar to outline four operational objectives:
- To examine, in the local history of three towns in the Mudejar Territory, the events that could give rise to a commemorative project of a scenic nature;
- To highlight, within the tangible local heritage of these three towns, the material elements that can serve as a stage for a musical, theatrical, choreographic or hybrid program with reference to Andalusian and Mudejar culture;
- To examine, within the intangible local heritage of these three peoples, the material elements that can be related to the surviving Andalusian culture, with a view to proposing their recovery or revitalization;
- To identify, within the local political, educational, and cultural fabric, the dynamics and difficulties that must be taken into account when proposing performing arts projects related to the “Mudejar identity” of these three communities.
From the analysis carried out, a series of conclusions have been drawn about the aspects of Andalusian art that are manifested in the Mudejar scene, taking as a reference the data obtained from Islamic and Andalusian sources and those obtained later within the framework of the Mudejar and Moorish minority.
The research proposes that Mudejar performing arts be recognized as a category within the history of the performing arts, and that there will be no differences between the performing arts carried out by Mudejars and Moriscos.
The visit concludes with a comprehensive bibliography and iconography of the performing arts associated with the Mudéjar Territory, as well as a proposal for several solutions that involve a tangential and mixed repertoire, a symbiosis between the medieval and the contemporary as a way of highlighting this lost but not irretrievable tradition and of investing in new techniques to develop new Mudéjar performing arts projects. The aim is to enhance the possibilities for managing the use of heritage spaces in the Mudéjar Territory.
LINE OF RESEARCH: Social function
AUTHORS: María Amor Borque and Serge Dambrine