Moving Identities: Las Sistahs (ES)
Las Sistahs is a newly founded artists’ collective from Barcelona that deals with social justice and black feminism. The five artists are directors, authors, actors, performers and choreographers and work in a multidisciplinary way. In their residency project ‘LAB’, they deal with projections and the exploitation of black women’s bodies and with sisterhood. Working with tenderness and love is the greatest revolution for Las Sistahs.
28.03. Las Sistahs and ANART (DK) will give a joint Open Studio and provide insight into their research.
Las Sistahs was selected as an artist group from Spain for the Moving Identities residency programme 2024-2025.
Aïsha Konaté accompanies the residency of Las Sistahs as a host artist. She/they supports the residency process through networking, exchange and feedback.
Aïsha is a queer, mixed-raced, multidisciplinary performance artist and facilitator (physical theater, dance, butoh, voice). She/they currently feels at home in Leipzig. She/they is part of the performance collective Polymora inc. and makes own performances. As part of TWIKX e.V. and the “pleasure bee trio”, Aïsha organizes regular somatic offerings, performance workshops, retreats and restspaces for marginalized groups. She/they is also a member of the Black Gospel Choir Leipzig and a massage practitioner.
Her/their love for the wisdom of the body, sci-fi, afrofuturism, rituals and collective intelligence is constantly finding new forms of expression in different constellations. Aïsha’s work is an invitation to weirdness, magic, joy and the ongoing desire to create hopeful, magical and authentic connections.
“I go with the political invitation to unlearn mastery and to get lost in order to find new ways of being with each other on this planet that I deeply love.”
“My creative work is a continuous research into what it means to be human in this world at this time. It’s juicy, its frightening, risky, completely overwhelming and powerful.”
Denise Duncan is a director, playwright and screenwriter as well as an academic at the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain. She has premiered around twenty plays, including ‘Títuba. Bruixa, negra i ramera’ (2021-22), “El combate del siglo” (2020-21) and “Negrata de merda” (2019). As an actress, she has appeared in ‘What the foc’ (2024) at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. She has been honoured with the Marqués de Bradomín Award (2006) and the Premi Ciutat de Manacor de Teatre (2018), among others. Duncan has degrees in directing, dramaturgy, theatre, cinema, playwriting and journalism from institutions in Spain and Costa Rica.
Vicenta N’Dongo has a degree in Dramatic Arts from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Performing Arts from the UAB. As an actress, she has appeared in plays such as ‘El día del Watusi’, ‘La plaça del Diamant’, ‘Immunitat’ and ‘Bonus Track’. In the audiovisual field, N’Dongo has appeared in ‘La Mesías’ (nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Actors and Actresses Union Awards), ‘Red Queen’, ‘Zorras’ and ‘Días Mejores’, among others.
Adriana Fuertes is an Afrofeminist writer with degrees in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB) and Communication (UPF), trained at the Col-legi del Teatre de Barcelona. She is a member of the Tinta Negra collective and was a screenwriter in the first programme of the Academy of Catalan Cinema under Carla Simón. As an actress, she has appeared in ‘What the foc’ (2024), ‘Fam’, ‘Assaig sobre la ceguesa’ and ‘Running for Democracy’, among others.
Choreographer and multidisciplinary artist Shorlady Preciado describes herself as an indigenous, African-European creator. She is currently studying choreography and performance at the Conservatory of Dance at L’Institut del Teatre. She has collaborated with artists such as Rigoberta Bandini and Becca Stevens, choreographers such as Alesandra Seutin and Aimar Pérez Galí and filmmakers such as Irene Moray and Elena Martín Gimeno. Her work has been shown in projects at the Festival de les Llums, the Het Theatre Festival and the Festival Grec. She is a member of the Tinta Negra collective in Barcelona.
Amada Bokesa Salomón-Bisobe is an actress and playwright and has acted in ‘Los Hombres Blancos deben morir’ (2021) and the film ‘A través de tu mirada’ (Netflix, 2024). She co-wrote ‘Bisila’, which was selected for the 2024 Z Festival, and was assistant director and artistic producer of ‘Black Man Solo’ (2023). A founding member of the theatre company La Fatal, she trained at Eòlia and Laura Jou’s studio (2021-2025) and also took classes in singing, movement and dramaturgy with Denise Duncan.
