Novelas de Niñas is an interactive bilingual soap opera set within a quince where music and storytelling explore the intersections of femme, queer, and Latinx identity. Produced by our media collaborative LIZN’BOW, Novelas de Niñas is a feminist, musical soap opera. Part installation, part interactive theatre, this project recreates the elaborate reception of a fiesta de quinceaños—the momentous event announcing a 15-year-old’s transition into adulthood. In this reinvention of a party that centers the performance of acceptable femininity, audience members sit alongside actors in an immersive drama. Set in an outrageously bedecked banquet hall, Novelas de Niñas provides the food, live music, and drama expected at any significant rite of passage. Stories inspired by the personal experiences of femme, queer, and Latinx people materialize throughout the evening in the form of projected mini-telenovelas and live theatrics.
Land Acknowledgement: Taino