Quinceañeras

From girl to woman: a 15th birthday is celebrated in style in Latin America. In Quinceañeras, Luisa Alfonso and Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez explore this ritual and transform it into an intimate, exuberant celebration of femininity and friendship.

The celebration itself is rooted in European debutante balls and combined with indigenous rites of passage is an example of imposed colonial traditions being reappropriated and turned into forms of empowerment. Luisa and Estefanía explore how traditions can be both restrictive and liberating.

What does it mean to come of age within a system of imposed rituals, and how can these rituals be rewritten as forms of resistance and self-affirmation? As Colombian artists living in Europe, Luisa and Estefanía approach this theme from the perspective of migrants. Their friendship fueled their creative process: a space of trust, care, and playfulness in which they explore new forms of female representation. Through dance, music, and performative rituals, they transform the theater into a hybrid space where excess, emotion, nostalgia and absences intertwine.