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 You've got to perform if you want a ticket to the Sociedad Cerrada party, says Garret Cummings
There's a couple dancing beside me,
one wrapped around the other.
Nothing odd about that. After all,
this is a party and it's Saturday
night. But this particular pair who are
slithering against each other are stark naked
- apart an earlier overhead shower of glitter
which is now stuck to their writhing bodies.
A gold-painted
lady dancing -
looking for a Bond
film to star in?
Th is isn't your average night out. In an
underground venue, known only to regulars,
hidden behind a church in a discreet corner
of Barcelona's up-and-coming Poble Nou
district, a new kind of performance theatre is
taking place. One with no audience. Everyone, you see, is taking part. DJs, artists, naked
revellers, they're all performing.
Over there, a ceiling-scraping drag
queen is wearing balloons for breasts. Next
to her, a Brazilian girl in an evening dress
belts out a ballad with a stick of celery for
a microphone. A bath full of ice cubes is
being pushed around by a troupe of pink,
plump men in loincloths.
Well, they certainly look
like they're having funThey cajole me
into bending down for a closer look at their
passenger, a bald man who's waving a dildo
around. As I get in close, he squeezes the balls and douses my face in a sticky alcoholic
liquid. It’s sambuca.
This is Sociedad Cerrada, the brainchild
of mercurial young Catalan Jairo Lozano.
His vision? “I went round much of Europe
but didn’t find any party that had the kind of
environment I wanted: a true celebration, a
sense of freedom, of joyfulness, of fantasy.”
The author, who lives in
Barcelona, in a dotty
hat,
plus an apprehensive
angelic friend
It’s hard to describe these events. “Party” is
almost too everyday a word. the atmosphere
is part Nevada’s Burning Man festival, part
early-1990s illegal rave. In a country famed
for its fiestas and juergas, this is another level, something new, brave and
different. Voyeurs are barred, and anyone
expressing disapproval is ejected.
Sociedad Cerrada finally winds down at
10am the next morning. The last revellers
stagger out trailing feathers and sequins
into the bright sunshine. Can't wait for the
next one. What will you wear?
www.sociedadcerrada.com
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Spanyol fantázia
Ez nem egy mindennapi parti. Itt mindenki résztvevő. Filmvetítésektől a DJ-kig, művészektől a ruhátlan
emberekig, mindenki része a képnek.
Ez a Sociedad Cerrada, Jairo Lozanonak, egy különc
fiatal katalánnak az elmeszüleménye. A történéseket
nem igazán lehet szavakban foglalni. A "buli" túl hétköznapi szó. Amott egy rendkívül magas transzvesztita, lufiméretű mellekkel. Kicsit arrébb egy brazil lány
nagyestélyiben egy balladát ad elő, egy szál zellerrel
helyettesítve a mikrofont. Egy csapat ágyékkötős dundi
pasi egy jégkockával teli kádat tol körbe-körbe.
A Sociedad Cerrada Lozano szerint az öröm, a szabadság és a fantázia valódi ünnepe.
Hiszpańska fantazja
Tuż koło mnie tańczy para, oboje są kompletnie
nadzy - okrywa ich tylko sypiący się z góry połyskujący
brokat. Jakaś dziewczyna śpiewa do kawałka selera
zamiast mikrofonu.
To nie jest zwyczajna impreza. W jednej z bocznych
uliczek Barcelony trwa nowy rodzaj teatralnego przedstawienia - bez widowni. Uczestniczą w nim wszyscy:
DJ-e, artyści i nadzy tancerze.
Jairo Lozano, twórca Sociedad Cerrada mówi: "Chciałem
prawdziwego świętowania, poczucia wolności, radości,
fantazji." Hiszpańska fiesta w nowym wydaniu.
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