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Article: How 'Belen' Was Born.
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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A fateful encounter sets a group of artists on a creative adventure
Call it astrology, fate or even mathematical probability.
Back in the summer of 1995, four equally obsessed women were hurtling through Mexico City's smoggy stratosphere, each in her own passionate orbit, when chance - or something stranger - caused them to collide. That collision ended up giving birth to Las Horas de Belen; a Book of Hours, a theatrical collaboration between the seminal New York experimental theatre company Mabou Mines and two remarkable Mexican performers. After a series of international workshops in Belagio, Italy, and at the Sundance Institute, Belen premiered this ...