LAS SISTAHS (ES) 2024-2025
We are a group of recent creation, we seek teamwork based on the affinity of our individual work and previous alliances in diverse teams, as well as our common ideology that can be summarized in the search for social justice, the work from mutual comprehensions, rigusority and black feminisms. The name comes from the recurrent use, among us, of the word “sister”. We feel twinned by life, by the struggles and by the way we look at life… we are optimists who think that the biggest revolution is working from and with tenderness and love, and that the way we want to work as a group of Afro-descendant women.
Parcitipating artists
DENISE DUNCAN (ES)
Director, playwright, screenwriter. Academic of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain.
She has premiered about twenty plays, among them “Títuba. Bruixa, negra i ramera” (Sala Periferia. Author and Director 2021, 2022); “El combate del siglo” (Author and Director, Sala Beckett 2020-21), “Negrata de merda” (Author and director, Teatre Tantarantana 2019); “Henrietta, a serenate for Costa Rica (co author, Teatro Espressivo 2021), ”Mamita Yunai” (dramaturgy/adaptation 2016) at Teatro Espressivo in Costa Rica, “Una dona en el mirall” (author and director) at Sala Atrium in Barcelona, “La Taverna dels Bufons” (assistant director and co-writer (Focus-Teatre Romea 2016). As an actress she has participated in plays such as “What the foc” directed by Junior Mthombeni and Gerardo Salinas at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (2024).
She has won awards such as the runner-up of the Marqués de Bradomín Award for theatrical texts 2006, Premi Ciutat de Manacor de Teatre, Jaume Vidal Alcover 2018; author of the VII Laboratorio de Escritura Teatral de la Fundación SGAE 2019 and resident author of Sala Beckett for the 2019-2020 season.
She has a Dregree in Directing and Playwrighting form Institut del Teatre, Master Degree in Theatre and Cinema (Universidade da Coruña), graduate in Dramatic Arts and in Journalism by Universidad de Costa Rica (2004).
VICENTA NDONGO (ES)
Degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona Master in Performing Arts from the UAB. Actress in plays such as El día del Watusi. Director Iván Morales, La plaça del Diamant. Director Carlota Subirós, Immunitat. Director Jordi Casanovas, Salvació Imminent… Director Pau Roca, Bonus Track. Director Cárol López, Un Déu Salvatge. Jasmina Reza. Director Tamzin Townsend. Teatre Goya; among many others. In the audiovisual field, he has participated in productions such as La Mesías. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. Movistar Plus+ (Nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Actors and Actresses Union Awards. Red Queen. Directed by Koldo Serra. Prime Video; Zorras. Directed by Aritz Moreno and Ana Vázquez. Atresplayer; Días Mejores. Dir. Alejo Flah. Atresplayer and Com si fos ahir Dir. Sònia Sánchez, and En la ciudad, by Cesc Gay, among others.
ADRIANA FUERTES LARA (ES)
Afrofeminist creator, graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Trained at the Col-legi del Teatre de Barcelona. Part of the Tinta Negra collective. She was a resident scriptwriter in the first edition of the Residence for Screenwriters of the Academy of Catalan Cinema, under the direction of Carla Simón. As an actress she has participated in “What the foc” directed by Junior Mthombeni and Gerardo Salinas at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (2024), in the monologue “Fam”, directed by Ester Nadal; “Assaig sobre la ceguesa” by José Saramago in 2022, and the dramatized reading of “Running for democracy” in the project “Between Lands” directed by Michael de Cook in 2021, among others.
SHORLADY PRECIADO (ES)
Choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. Shorlady conceives herself as an indigenous-African-European artist. She is currently studying at the Conservatory of Dance at L’Institut del Teatre specializing in choreography and performance.
She has worked in performance and visual arts with artists such as: Rigoberta Bandini, Marial Arnal, Becca Stevens among others, and with choreographers such as Alesandra Seutin, Aimar Perez Galí, Marta Ros, Helena Gispert, among others. Film directors, such as Irene Moray, Elena Martín Gimeno, María Trénor, Irene Baque.
She has worked in projects coordinated by the Festival de les llums. Het Theater Festival, Festival Grec. She is currently part of the collective Tinta Negra in Barcelona.
AMADA BOKESA SALOMÓN-BISOBE (ES)
Actress, playwright.
She has acted in plays such as “Los Hombres Blancos deben morir” (Sala Cincómonos, 2021), in films such as “A través de tu mirada” (Netflix, 2024) or the short film “1,5 y +” (pending release). She is a founding member of the theater company “La Fatal” and has co-written “Bisila”, one of the pieces selected in the Z Festival 2024 circuit. In addition, she was assistant director and artistic producer of the show “Black Man Solo” (Periferia Cimarronas, 2023).
She has been trained as an actress in the free school of Eòlia (2020) and the actor’s studio of Laura Jou (2021-2025). As a multidisciplinary artist she has also trained in singing and movement with Queralt Albinyana or Rogelio Lordá. In 2021 she finished her training in Assistant Theatre Direction at Eòlia. She trained in Scenic Creation with Azkona Toloza at Sala Becket (2023) and today, she has training in playwrighting with Denise Duncan.
Taken residency at
Nau Ivanow
Nau Ivanow is a space of welcome, accompaniment, research and innovation; a haven where companies will find the warmth needed to work unhurriedly and in good conditions. Residencies are the main focus of what we do. Our aim is to provide decent working conditions, always accompanying the artists and providing them with the resources they need. Nau Ivanow’s projects are underpinned by three major working axes: creation, accompaniment and work with the territory. And all of them with one common denominator: internationalization, which permeates each and every one of our projects.
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts is a hub and a gathering point in Northern Norway for the professional independent Performing Arts community. The organization is a laboratory for new ideas, artistic research, and an open space where different cultures are cared for. We challenge hegemonic thinking and support cross-sectorial artistic working and thinking. We are staff of 11 curios people, we are placed in Hammerfest, Tromsø and Bodø and we are a space that offers residency, laboratories and producer services.
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
HELLERAU acts as an interdisciplinary and international centre for dance, performance, music, theatre and media arts. It offers spaces for productions, festivals, concerts performances, exhibitions and discourse, cooperates with various regional cultural partners and is firmly connected internationally. An important part of HELLERAU is a residency program, which offers opportunities for artistic research, networks, production and encounters throughout the whole year.
Who is Las Sistahs?
We are five Afro-Catalan creators, who have coincided in other projects, that now we wanted to work together and tell our stories in our own way.
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What led you to present yourselves to Moving Identities?
Firstly, the interest in working together. Secondly, it seems to us a privilege to be able to have the space and time to investigate a subject, from the performing arts field.
In a society that is governed by production values, closed times and the search for a result, having the freedom to search/play/research is a luxury. And together, even more so.
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What are you interested in investigating in the residencies you will develop?
We are working on the history of a group of enslaved black women who were used for gynecological experiments. Thanks to them, during the 19th century, progress was made in medical issues such as the care of vesicovaginal fistulas, caesarean sections or the extraction of eggs, among others. However, the names of these women (Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy) were forgotten for years, while the doctor came to be considered the father of modern gynecology.
From this true story, our research focuses on black women’s bodies, how they are perceived, how they are read. We are working along three axes: pain, strangeness and pleasure/joy.
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What motivates or excites you most about being part of the Moving Identities project?
Meeting each other. Sharing the process together. To give a voice to other black women who were erased from history, to explore our poetics, our creative process… from the company and presence of others, from complicity, from embrace and tenderness.
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