Culture - Literary Arts - Performing Arts: Dance, Theatre
Website: https://albertdelgadoh.wixsite.com/adelhernandez
5814 Hawaiian Cove, San Antonio, TX 78204
About the Director:
Adel Hernandez is a Queer Tejanx-Chicanx dance and performance artist. They use movement from the hips— to the chest— and throughout the limbs, isolation, and delays of movement exploring and responding to our cultural terrain. The movement-based work produced comes from their ancestors and their queerness. They make work that tells stories of liminal beings and landscapes through contemporary dance and performance art.
CMPR- Center for Movement and Performance Research
Is a performance laboratory space in which the artist engages with the space, and architecture of its walls, and ghosts towards an installation movement performance piece.
Center
What is ancestry in the aesthetics of my explored movements? We ask the artist to work and interact with this question while experimenting with contemporary and conceptual art through movement.
Movement: Movement is in response to the physical reaction within our cultural terrain. Movement through the physical is explored through the artists’ genealogical stories of what makes them whole; mind, body, and spirit. Through movement research– be it improvisation, modern dance, post-modern dance, contemporary styles; the artist participates in their own techniques of their bodies. We foster a free thinking platform that decolonizes the traditional formations of dance.
Performance: What is performance?
Performance is what we do. To walk, run, or dance. Rituals. Drama. Theater. Performance is political. Performance art. Performance as research.
Research: Research is at the center of what we do through the arts. CMPR provides movement and performance practice classes, as well as host residencies to bring in performance and dance companies to perform for the San Antonio Communidad.
About Adel Hernandez’s Work:
“Thought-Provoking and Candid” – Morgan Stevenson, Theater Educator, Playwright and Director of “If We Don’t Get It, Shut it Down” 2016, NY, NY
“Are there ghosts that live in your body, telling you things?” This is the question that repeats in my mind every time I experience a movement based work born from Adel Hernandez’s practice. But when the performance finishes, it’s not a haunting I’m left with but something more like a spirit pushing out of its body in order to reclaim the body. The self-movement toward queer belonging; a procession of souls linked together in a stunning survival.” – Zeli Miceli, Playwright of “The Topography Between (a New York radio love song)”, Fringe Festival 2016, NY, NY