Xochicuicatl Cuecuechtli (Ribald Flowersong) is the first music theatre piece conceived uniquely in Nahuatl language and employing autochthonous instruments from ancient Mexico. Written in 2012 by Gabriel Pareyon after more than ten years of literary, musical and linguistic research, its text and poetic sense come directly from the namesake poem compiled by Friar Bernardino de Sahagun in the 16th century, among Nahua informants who survived the Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The play is a semio-historical reinterpretation upon the erotic sense of the cuecuechcuicatl (ribald song) genre and its expressiveness as original word, poetry, music, dance and philosophy.
* Xochicuicatl Cuecuechtli * 