We start in an open field, as if we were a long way from the city. Someone will round us all up. The herder calls and the sheep climb up to the terrace. There, Laura dances, sings and cradles us. She calls it La Nueva Bestia [The New Beast].

Then we’ll enter a spectral night, where the genres will be mixed up and it will feel a little like a concert, a little like the cinema, a little like a haunted house with Fantasma Sur.

Laura Morales presents La Nueva Bestia, a piece she created out of her research for the Ser Pastora project. This piece turns the stroll to the performance space into a transhumance. It’s a shout-out to rural exodus, to herds that no longer migrate, to the disappearance of generational replacement, and to the gender gap. “This piece doesn't begin now, it's already begun. The entire path we’ve followed to make it here today already forms part of the piece. Now, just connect with the group and listen to my shout marking the start of this journey. I also have a whistle that the mountains will echo back to you if we stray too far apart; and a song in case a surprise scatters us, so we can come back to the calm of our grazing lands.”

Laura Morales is a choreographer and dancer. She left university to go to dance school, where she started creating and researching her own pieces. For several years she has been accompanying female herders in their transhumance. Ser Pastora is her latest piece.

Fantasma Sur: Alondra Bentley’s voice and melodies merge with Ylia's electronic textures and rhythms. This unexpected encounter gives rise to atmospheric spectral music, songs about ghosts written with the filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta who, together with visual artist Albert Coma, is responsible for the film projections that interact live with the music. Songs that float on ambient tracks, pixellated limbos, echoes of fantasy films and sonic journeys in time. “It all began one day when we started talking about Mark Fisher.” Fantasma Sur points towards a parallel reality where all genres can intersect (k-punk, ghost story, spoken work, vampire love letters), a house haunted by spectres free from past lives.

Fantasma Sur is a project developed by Alondra Bentley (singer and composer), Ylia (electronic music composer and producer), Isaki Lacuesta (filmmaker and writer) and Albert Coma (visual artist). In the next few months we’ll be able to listen to their first album as a collective.

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