Radical d'Arrel: Maja y Bastarda. Laila Tafur

Maja y Bastarda is an appropriation of the less serious, sombre and pure traditional dances. It is a clear decision to opt for dances that have been judged by others to be “less”: “As such, I celebrate the mestizo, which, flaunting its fictitious connections to the traditional and the new, produces a bastard cante jondo, a folkloric Frankenstein’s creature that is able to travel from tablao to theatre, from disco to cave, from professional to amateur or from sobriety to party”. Tafur constructs a zambra style of flamenco loaded with questions that invokes the mestizo, the majo, the outsider.