No
La Venidera | Albert Fernández & Irene Tena

  Friday, October 24
  7:30 p.m.
  €14 and €16*
MUN Theater

* Advance sale: purchase your tickets with a 15% discount before August 31. (discounts cannot be combined)

No is the unknown place to which we belong. No is the image of a burning bonfire. A bonfire where we burn everything that belongs to the establishment. No is an alternative that pushes us into the occult. 

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

Denial closes, silences, mutes, denotes non-existence and invites us to the opposite, but instead it enhances the symbolic, enhances intuition. It enhances the unknown...

This No that we imagine is: Black / Charcoal / The negative of a photo / Absence / A fault / A stain / Emptiness. But No is also everything that is yet to come. Everything that is empty always fills up again... No is not the trigger that keeps us going. It is not the regenerative and visceral energy that fuels 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 by La Venidera represents the first solo work by Irene Tena and Albert Hernández, after having been part of the Spanish National Ballet as principal dancers and soloists in recent years. They invite us into their most intimate and personal universe and offer us a contemporary vision of flamenco dance. Friction between tradition and the new creates the ideal space to raise questions and offer a new, generational perspective on the language of Spanish dance. They are not embarking on 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 CREDITS
Direction, choreography, and performance: Irene Tena, Albert Hernández
Artistic advisor: Marcos Morau
Original music and composition: Manuel Urbina, FLAMANTE
Flamenco advisor: Marco Flores
Set design: Paula González
Lighting design: Gabriela Bianchi (to be confirmed)
Costume design: Abgonal
Tailoring: Teresa Morollón
Executive production: Paola Villagas, Gabriel Blanco (Spectare)
Management & Distribution: Lola Ortiz de Lanzagorta (New Dance Management)
Image and audiovisual: Abgonal, Jorge Rico, Derek V Bulcke

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

In 2023, her pieces Loca and Paseantes were selected by the Red Acieloabierto network and toured street festivals such as Mas Danza, Trayectos, Lekuz Leku, Traslación, Cuadernos escénicos, etc. That same year, Loca was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) and was awarded the Audience Award. 

In 2024, they participate as guest choreographers in Pineda, the new production by the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet. They also choreograph and star in a documentary about Antonia Mercé "La Argentina" alongside the Juan March Foundation.  

IRENE TENA MORA

Graduated from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre. In 2015, she furthered her dance studies at the Mariemma Royal Professional Dance Conservatory. In 2016, she began her career as a dancer with the Spanish National Ballet and six years later she was appointed Soloist Dancer under the direction of Rubén Olmo. In 2024, she left the company to devote herself fully to her own project, La Venidera. In 2019, she was awarded the ASIGE Foundation Prize for "Outstanding Dancer" in the Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition in Madrid for her choreography. Crazy and in 2020 she was nominated for "Best Female Dance Performer" at the Max Awards for Broken Thread, the first dance show she created with her company La Venidera, in which she serves as 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 to the school. Peridance Contemporary Dance Center. In 2016, he began his career as a dancer with the Spanish National Ballet. Six years later, he was appointed principal dancer under the direction of Rubén Olmo. In 2024, he left the company to devote himself fully to his own project, La Venidera. Highlights of his young career as a choreographer include First Prize for Choreography at the Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition for his piece Crazy, the choreography for his first show Broken Thread with his company La Venidera and the recent short pieces he has created as guest choreographer for the Mariemma Royal Professional Dance Conservatory, the Spanish National Ballet, and the Rosario Vancouver Flamenco Dance Company in Canada.