Daniel Hernández

Collaboration: Alberto Alonso
Residency Programme: February-March 2017
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February 2017

The artwork in which Daniel and Alberto are immersed is about “the silence”.
The longed for silence or the imposed silence, the silence as a void to accommodate all what is muted, the silence as the only possible answer in a society with an increasingly sophisticated repression, the silence as a place where dances the echo of what we have heard last before being inhabited by it.
With and experience coming on one case from the rigour of traditional spanish dance, and on the other from contemporary dance, they both have gone over the borders of their discipline and here comes again an opportunity to search for new ways of expression with the body, driven away from the choreography and face the challenge of an open setting in which concepts are used to deep into the cognitive and emotional experience, working by responses of the bodies and the audience.
It is a research project which can develop into a series of hybrid pieces between dance, performance and installation.
A meeting between Abraham Hurtado, Alberto Alonso, and Daniel Hernández, three artists with different perspectives in relation to the body.

March 2017

Silenced – Experience 2
Stage Direction: Abraham Hurtado
Sound: Selu Herráiz

The current research of Daniel and Alberto has as object of analysis the silence, without excluding the possibilities to explore other meanings of it, at the moment they have focused on the social silence, insured by the legal and and economic structures. Gathering and public expression are liable to be considered a punishable offense, and the legal and constabulary apparatus is in charge of making it effective. These has generated a recognizable gestural repertoire. The first experience was based in exploring and assimilating this gestural repertoire. The sound-work tells us about internet as a tool of power that goes in two opposite directions —on one hand as a speaker of a diversified visión, which breaks the monopolio of the information, and on the other hand as a trap which collects the traces of all our actions and thoughts, the new silencing power of the monitoring.
In this second experience, the starting point is the previous work, they change medium, from performance to installation, as the timeless presence of the body here makes it into a life installation and. Selu Herraiz comes into it to make the soundscape of the piece.
Regarding to the topic, they are still talking about the social silence, and they incorporate other silenced, bodies which have become a mere obstacle. People who have suffered a silent fall and have lost their social representativity to become creatures which barely can take care of their existence.