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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.

Las Sistahs and ANART (DK) gave a joint Open Studio to provide insight into their research process.

Las Sistahs was selected as an artist group from Spain for the Moving Identities residency programme 2024-2025.

Denise Duncan

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Denise Duncan is a director, playwright, screenwriter and lecturer 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 last appeared in "What the foc" (2024) at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Her work has earned her the Marqués de Bradomín Award (2006) and the Premi Ciutat de Manacor de Teatre (2018), among others. Duncan studied directing, dramaturgy, theatre, cinema, playwriting and journalism in Spain and Costa Rica.

Vicenta N'Dongo

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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

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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.

Shorlady Preciado

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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

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Amada Bokesa 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.

Host Artist Aïsha Konaté

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Aïsha Konaté accompanied the Las Sistahs residency as a local host artist and supported the process through networking, exchange and feedback. Aïsha is a queer, mixed-raced, multidisciplinary performance artist and facilitator (theatre, dance, butoh, voice), lives in Leipzig and is part of the collective Polymora inc. as well as their own projects. As a member of TWIKX e.V. and the “pleasure bee trio”, Aïsha offers workshops, retreats and restspaces for marginalized groups. Aïsha also sings in the Black Gospel Choir Leipzig and works as a massage practitioner. Aïsha's work combines body wisdom, sci-fi, Afrofuturism, rituals and collective intelligence - always as an invitation to magic, joy and new connections.