Movement Logic
efficiency of movement

The workshop begins each day with a technical part in which the dancers can develop a personal understanding of geometry and its relation to the body. Impulses will be explored from alignment, movement flow, breath, the relationship to the space and to the other participants, as well as the various ways in which movements can be held and dissolved through extension. After they have achieved this understanding, David Hernandez leads the dancers into improvisation and composition through which they can explore and build on their own abilities as spontaneous agents and performers in relationship to their specific problems, situations, and issues.
In this transitional improvisation we begin to experience the weight of the body and its collaboration with gravity which helps us to move through the space with efficiency. Afterwards the class gets more and more physical as we begin to train the various muscle groups and actions working with gravity as our partner until we finally approach a choreographic material in which the previous concepts can be applied.

"For the last 15 years I have been developing a personal approach to contemporary technique that is informed by many influences and experiences. I began concentrating on filling the gap between the research and body works that have been known as Release Techniques and the manifestation of these body works in movement. I concentrate my work on building a bridge between the more static work of discovering body connections and correct muscular usage while lengthening the muscular system in relationship to the bones and the application of this information into physically demanding movement material. Once we find the more effecient use of the body we will concentrate on physicalising these concepts and developing an efficiency of movement while exploring the open range that results from this research."



David Hernandez
David Hernandez, born in Miami FL, studied Studio music, Jazz and Opera at the University of Miami and Dance at the New world School of the Arts before moving to New York, where he worked as an apprentice for a time with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. In 1993 he moved to Europe with Meg Stuart to help her start Damaged Goods in Belgium and worked with the company for almost five years as a performer, collaborator, training the company and often assistant to Stuart. He left the company to return to building his own body of work in Brussels under the name Edwardvzw.
He developed the improvisation project "Crash Landing" (1996-1999), in collaboration with Meg Stuart and Christine DeSmedt. Further improvisation projects were developed for festivals such as Klapstuk, Springdance, Sum of the Parts and many more and has danced as an improviser with many artists such as Katie Duck, Steve Paxton, Vera Mantero, a.o.
He teaches regularly in Belgium and internationally and has been a regular professor at P.A.R.T.S. for more than a decade and developed and directed the Performance Education Program (PEP) in Leuven in residence at the Klapstuk festival. He has received grants from the Flemish government and many other production houses for the realisation of his work. Additionally, Hernandez is serving as partner in the private dance studio initiative Dance Centrum Jette, with Roxanne Huilmand, which recently received subsidies from the Belgian government as a "werkplaats".
He has been collaborating on projects with Rebecca Murgi (IT), Laborgras (DE), Anouk Van Dijk Company, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas.
He will be dancing in the new creation of Rosas "Cesena" to premiere in July 2011 at the Festival D’Avignon, Cours D’Honneur. Hernandez returns to creating his own choreographic oeuvre with a new project, working title "Thirst" to premiere in early 2012.
He continues to work as a writer in music, dance, visual art, multi media, events, pedagogy and experimental theatre worldwide and is a much sought after pedagogue, performer and creator/director.
Web page – www.myspace.com/doojazz