Europe's collective cultural imagination has seen the creation over the centuries of a multi-sided figure around cultures, peoples and elements linked to or detached from the Muslim world. The mixture of political, religious, ethnic, social and cultural elements has given rise to a range of allegorical images about the Moors which jump back and forth between reality and legend. Ballar el Moro [Dancing the Moor] is a journey through history, myths and folklore that surrounds the festival universe of Christians and Moors.

‘Ballar el moro’ explains the mixture of political, religious, ethnic, social and cultural elements that have given rise to a range of allegorical images of the Moor which jump back and forth between reality and legend, between a phobia of and a love for Moors, between history and myth etc.