The stars announce the dance, the bonfires and the secrets at the edge of the fountain.
An apparition, La Sorny, welcomes us.
We have invoked the six Andalusian goddesses, Las Niñas, to turn our hands red from so much clapping and applause.
From the darkness of the forest, a figure emerges. It is Élan D’Orphium, who has come with their performance and amorous look to fill us with the night.
Only Travest15m0 and her DJ session can keep us up, leading us into the deep darkness.
Dance! Dawn isn’t here yet!
Las Niñas: Manu Conejero
Story of a Poppy that Escaped amidst the Wheat by Las Niñas. In this piece, Las Niñas examine the concept of lip syncing and the deconstruction of a drag queen (playback, lip syncing, dance) as a common, axiomatic aspect of their practice. They offer a unique perspective on the ‘transvestite body’ from a collective standpoint, putting sisterhood at the core, which is essential for creating and maintaining a project like this one.
The group numbers are interspersed with performances in which each individual shares their personal vision of uprootedness, flight, the quest for their own identity, nostalgia and that need for community, which is what ultimately saves us and keeps us alive. The ending blends the individual and the collective by culminating with a live costume change and a fusion of traditional flamenco and electronic music, which takes the performance to a festive climax merged with introspection on the effort and value of art.
With this show, they invite the audience to participate in something very intimate and to reflect on what being ‘transvestite,’ ‘Andalusian’ and strange mean via a sublime, eccentric, diverse beauty.
The Las Niñas collective was founded in late 2018 based on the collective drive and need to find a space of creation and expression within the world of transvestism. The association brings together artists from different Andalusian provinces. Their first time onstage as a group was in Seville, at festival venues and concert halls in the city that watched them grow and enabled them to find themselves.
In 2020, they moved to Madrid, where they continue to showcase all things ‘Andalusian’ via experimentation, revision and reinterpretation of what this means.
They have been working in halls in Madrid nonstop since 2021, with occasional visit to their hometown of Seville.
Élan D'Orphium. Photo: La Santa Marica
Performance by Élan D’Orphium. Their work offers reinterpretations of gender, the human and human gender through a conspiratorial interpretation of listenings, gestures and observations with species from other kingdoms. Élan d’Orphium’s work is drawing, stage, action and consequence of an act of being, sometimes hyperbolic, in which image breaks with structure and rises in a territory of suspicion, non-narration and alienation. They seek to dilute or integrate the performance in the social and the social in the performance in an exercise that has to do with the symbolic potential of art.
Élan d’Orphium is wild, acrobatic, nutty, bird-like, impish, a scalawag, a queer queen, a hooker, a classy worker, feathered, gay, hairy and an artist in their free time.
Travest15m0. Photo: Lagrima Collective
Travest15m0. From the most classic electronica to the most deconstructed music, her mixes are a journey that explores the boundaries of fun and dance, always with particular attention to percussion and harmonies. We recommend you warm up because you’re going to be dancing for a long, long time…
Travest15m0 is a DJ, producer and promoter from Andalusia who lives in Madrid. She has grown up and shared a booth with artists like Sukubratz, CRRDR and 2AT, and now she spends her time shaking up the club scene in the capital city. She is currently a member of the INSULTO Club, a group that aims to create queer spaces on the electronica scene, promote dissident artists and share the best international music.