Defined as a queer-drama comedy, the piece is an autofiction stemming from the experience of its creator, Zahira Montalvo, as an Andalusian woman who has lived outside her region. The work explores stereotypes, prejudices, and forms of symbolic violence linked to accent, body, or the way of inhabiting space.
On stage, Zahira Montalvo unfolds a "dissident copla" built with her "chosen comrades." This exercise in identity transforms folkloric elements such as sibilants, flamboyance, and ruffles into tools of resistance and affirmation. The work is presented as an act of love for one's own, but also as a critical explosion.
“"A molotov stew to break the silences."
Directed by Ana Cavilla and Pamela Palenciano, and with a collective creation dramaturgy, No ni ná is structured around testimonies, experiences, and diverse voices that traverse feminism, sexual-affective dissidences, and Andalusian identity. The proposal seeks an encounter from the margins to forge alliances, reclaim memory, and blur borders, aiming to "find the south by losing the north."
The show combines text, gestural interpretation, music, and performative elements in a hybrid scene that oscillates between the intimate and the political. Through humor, emotion, and closeness, the piece invites the audience to question normative codes and to view from different perspectives. It is, in the words of its team, "a public act of rebellion, self-determination, memory, and joy."
The creation features a broad artistic team that includes collaborations on texts by Alessandra García, Antonio Manuel, Carmen Xia, and Eva Mompó, lighting design by Paloma Cavilla, and costume design by Marifé Navarro and Sergy Tapiju, in a production by Kancaneo Teatro.
