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La Venidera | Albert Hernández & Irene Tena

  Friday, October 24
  19:30 h
  14€ y 16€*
MUN Theatre

* Advance sale: buy your tickets with a 15% discount before August 31. (no cumulative discounts)

Irene Tena and Albert Hernández, ex-solo dancer and ex-prime dancer of the Spanish National Ballet, come to MUN with their first solo work: No.

It isnot the unknown place where we belong. No It is not the image of a burning bonfire. A bonfire where we burn everything that belongs to the established. No is not an alternative that pushes us into the occult.

We are burnt wood. We are the remains of others. We are dust. After denying, we search the night of life for all the questions that will keep us awake. Denial helps us to move forward and invites us to place ourselves on the opposite side....

Denial closes, muzzles, silences, denotes non-existence and invites us to the contrary, but on the other hand it empowers the symbolic, it empowers intuition. It empowers the unknown...

This No that we imagine is: Black / Charcoal / The negative of a photo / The absence / A lack / A stain / The void. But No is also all that is to come. Everything that is empty always comes back to be filled... No is the trigger that makes us go on. No is the regenerative and visceral energy that enlivens and flourishes our ingenuity... Because art is one of the places par excellence that exists thanks to the negation of the "real" world.

This project of La Venidera represents the first solo work of Irene Tena and Albert Hernández, after having been part of the Ballet Nacional de España as principal dancers and soloists in recent years. They invite us to enter their most intimate and personal universe and offer us a contemporary vision of flamenco dance. Frictioning tradition with the new creates the ideal space to raise questions and offer a new and generational look at the language of Spanish dance. They do not undertake this journey alone, among other collaborators they have the support of Marcos Morau who accompanies them in this new chapter of their promising career.

ARTISTIC FILE

Direction, choreography and interpretation: Irene Tena, Albert Hernández
Artistic advisor: Marcos Morau
Original music and composition: Manuel Urbina, Derek V. Bulcke
Live music and interpretation: Derek V. Bulcke
Flamenco advisor: Marco Flores
Special collaboration (voice): Gabriel de la Tomasa
Sound design: Carlos Parra
Set design: Paula González
Lighting design: Gabriela Bianchi
Costume and tailoring design: Santamarta
Image and audiovisual: Abgonal, Jorge Rico, Derek V. Bulcke
Executive Production: Paola Villegas, Gabriel Blanco, Andrea Méndez (Spectare)
Management & Distribution: Lola Ortiz de Lanzagorta (New Dance Management)

A co-production of Centro Danza Matadero Madrid, Festival Grec de Barcelona and Fira Mediterrània de Manresa.
With the support of CAM and INAEM

LA VENIDERA
La Venidera directed by Albert Hernández and Irene Tena, former dancers of the National Ballet of Spain, was born out of the choreographic and interpretative needs of two artists seeking to find new perspectives on contemporary Spanish dance. In 2020 they are invited as choreographers by the National Ballet of Spain to create Sevilla, a piece that is currently part of the company's repertoire. In 2021 they premiere their first two site-specific works: Acompanyament a l'arquitectura and Paseantes.

In 2023 his pieces Loca and Paseantes were selected in the Acieloabierto Network and toured street festivals such as: Mas Danza, Trayectos, Lekuz Leku, Traslación, Cuadernos escénicos, etc. That same year Loca is finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) and is awarded with the Audience Award. 

In 2024 they participate as guest choreographers in Pineda, the new production of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía. In addition, they choreographed and starred in a documentary about Antonia Mercé "La Argentina" with the Fundación Juan March.  

IRENE TENA MORA

Graduated from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre. In 2015 she extended her dance studies at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma. In 2016 she began her career as a dancer of the Ballet Nacional de España and six years later she gets the position of Soloist Dancer under the direction of Rubén Olmo. In 2024 she leaves the company to devote herself fully to her own project La Venidera. In 2019 she is awarded the ASIGE Foundation Prize for "Outstanding Dancer" within the Certamen Coreográfico de Danza Española y Flamenco de Madrid for the choreography. Loca and in 2020 she was nominated as a candidate for "Best Female Dance Performer" at the Max Awards for Broken ThreadThe first dance show she created with her company La Venidera, in which she is the artistic director, choreographer and performer.  

ALBERT HERNÁNDEZ LLEDÓ

Graduated from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre specializing in Spanish dance. In 2014, he furthered his studies in New York after winning a scholarship at the school. Peridance Contemporary Dance Center. In 2016 he began his career as a dancer of the National Ballet of Spain. And six years later he gets the position of Principal Dancer under the direction of Rubén Olmo. In 2024 he left the company to work fully in his own project La Venidera. In his young career as a choreographer, he won the First Prize for Choreography at the Certamen Coreográfico de Danza Española y Flamenco for his work Locathe choreography of his first show Broken Thread with his company La Venidera and the recent short pieces he has created as guest choreographer for the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma, Ballet Nacional de España and the Flamenco Rosario Dance Company Vancouver, Canada.