Carmelita Tropicana
Alina Troyano aka Carmelita Tropicana is a writer, performer born in La Habana and based in New York City. Her sister, Ela Troyano, is a longtime collaborator,
Art imitates life, though today a lot is the other way around. You always pushed the boundaries much before I did. You had vision and got us to relocate to the wild East Village in the eighties where crime and drugs made rents cheap and artists came in droves to a neighborhood that looked like a bombed-out Berlin after the war and performance clubs sprung up, operating with no licenses or city permits.
