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The Latin Ballet of Virginia:
El Beso de la Abeja

The Latin Ballet of Virginia presents excerpts of the production, “Kiss of the Bee” a celebration to the beauty of our planet and the value of bees to our livelihood.

Join us during National Pollinator Week for a weeklong celebration of our important pollinators — bees, butterflies, birds, bats, and beetles — and the plants that support them.

A bee pollinating a flower much like the Latin Ballet's "Kiss of the Bee"

Schedule:

11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Included with regular admission. 

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Date:
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Time:
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
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The bees place in our world is important beyond our understanding. “They are one of the reasons, if not the main reason,” for the possibility of human development on earth. Without them, the development of life on earth, and conditions for human development may not have existed.

“No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” – Albert Einstein

A dancer from the Latin Ballet of Virginia performing on stage.

ACT I

Let Your Life Bee

The bees place in our world is important beyond our understanding. Without them, the development of life on earth, and conditions for human development may not have existed.  These conditions are the appearance of the flower-bearing plants and pollinators, with the bees, being the crown jewel of the pollinators.

The Beehive, as a whole, is a superorganism indeed a universe of life!

The matriarchal group organization of a queen and thousands of female worker bees and male drones have had to adapt and overcome all the conditions of change that can happen over a 100,000,000 year period of time.

EL CANTO DE LAS REINAS – (The Song of the Queens – (Piping)      Only one queen lives in a given hive. Queen bees are made not born and most of the reason for this appears to be her diet of royal jelly. The Queens fight to the death until only one remains.

EL SOL (The Son) – Queen of the SUN – The Nuptial Flight The sun is indispensable for their life! Bees need the sun as a reference point in navigation and communication through their dance language. The queen bee is the heart and soul of the honey bee colony. She is the reason for nearly everything the rest of the colony does.

INTERMISSION

ACT II

Tus Besos me saben a Miel (Your Kisses taste like Honey) The surviving queen will fly out on a sunny, warm day to a “drone congregation area”

Metamorphosis

Taking care of the Baby Queens

”The Gold Dust of Nature

“If the earth were deprived of flowers,
half its vitality would disappear.”

Finale music composed by DJ Halber