Ayara Hernández
Studied contemporary dance with the Contradanza group (under Florencia Varela) in Uruguay and at the EDDC (European Dance Development Centre) in Arnhem in the Netherlands. In 2009 she gained her Masters in Practice of the Contemporary Arts and Education (MACAPD) at L’animal a l’esquena, in collaboration with the Universidad de Gerona, Dartington College of Arts and the MASKA Institute.
For the past few years she has been creating her own pieces in collaboration with the choreographer and performer Félix Marchand and guest artists. Her work has been performed in Latin America and Europe. These pieces include: Komischer Eingang (Berlín, 2009), Una multitud singular (Montevideo, 2011), NEW (Berlín 2011- 2013) Mixtape (Berlín 2006/2014), Retrato de un monstruo (Montevideo, Barcelona 2015). En la sombra de un elefante (Montevideo 2018) and Si el sol se apaga prometo ser tu luz (Montevideo 2019).
Since taking her Masters she has been working on the project Organic Documentation, a series of artistic works that deal with the processes of memory in performance pieces and their poetic potential. On this theme she has created: the performance-installation Tracing (2009 to the present day), the video-documentary Rumor (2014), made in collaboration with the film maker and producer Arauco Hernández, and the performance piece and script/score NEW. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the Berlin senate and in 2013 by Iberescena to continue her work on memory. As a result of her residency in Mexico, she wrote El nacimiento de una montaña (Birth of a Mountain), a documentary screenplay on the memories of dance pieces based on the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. In 2019 she received a FEFCA grant in Uruguay in recognition of her artistic career, and this led to a new version of Tracing. She has also worked on projects by Josep Caballero, Cris Blanco (Spain), Begüm Erciyas (TR/DE), Diego Gil (AR/NL/DE), Zufit Simon (DE), Angela Shubot/TWO FISH (DE), Hyoung-Min Kim (ROK/ DE), Irina Müller (SD/DE), Tamara Cubas/ Perro Rabioso, Carolina Silveira, Florencia Martinelli (Uruguay), Liisa Pentii (France) and Eszter Gal (H). In 2010 she took part in The Village, a festival/project set up by Peter Stammer along with 27 choreographers based in Berlin.
She has given classes and seminars in various centres and institutions in Montevideo and Berlin, including: CCE /Centro Cultural de España (Montevideo) Maestría HZT/ SODA, Ponderosa Tanzland festival Marameo and Tanzfabrik (Berlin).
She is currently a member of the teaching staff for the dance degree at IENBA at Universidad de la República, concentrating mainly on creative activities.
She lives and works between Berlin and Montevideo.