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JUNGALA is a contemporary performance for children from 4 to 8 yrs of age. An interdisciplinary piece where music, light, visuals and movement combine to create a unique performance. Two dancers and two musicians are confronted with a tree that finds home in the desert while used to live in a dense green jungle. They move in a performance space made of intriguing images and sounds! Viewers can get carried away in a mysterious outdoor world…

JUNGALA was inspired by the jungles of India and by the painting “The sleeping gypsy” by Henry Rousseau. I began imagining a new story and arrived at this title which in Sanskrit means «wild land», and that can also be understood as "dense earth" like a jungle, or as "dry land" like a desert. Plants and trees occupy a very important place in our life. Many generations pass by them. Every death of a tree brings another mysterious story, mostly untold. What if the trees started telling us what they saw and how they pass through life? It would be quite a great time for any child to hear. Perhaps this could be one among many reasons why we have so many generations of novels about trees and plants, fabulous fables, stories, songs, and myths making the tree a time honored metaphorical resource in our thinking. This was the context of our thinking process: an aged tree in communication with the young audience, telling events, stories.