A powerful piece of dance and song by Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
In equally huge fascination and frustration, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of the traditional dances in the classical European ballet, and the popular traditional Mexican music genre Mariachi, with its amorous vocals, strings and brass. Both are characterised for being hyper-dramatic, hyper-virtuous and hyper-gendered. With composer Peter Rubel and an abundance of loudspeakers, Alfonso sings covers of Latin American cheesy oldies such as El Cascabel by Lorenzo Barcelata and Me Estoy Acostumbrando a Ti by Pepe Aguilar, hijacking the dance and song from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions.
