HUGO ANDRÉS PEÑA
ABOUT
ABOUT ME
I am a Chilean choreographer, dance teacher and movement researcher . I was a teacher in the Art Faculty of the Academia de Humanismo University in the careers of Dance and Theater for several years. Like a Dancer I worked in different dance companies in Chile specially in the Espiral Dance Company under the dirección of Patricio Bunster.
My choreographic language developed through the project Al margen , creating interdiciplinary contemporary dance works, staging them in theaters and dance festivals throughout Chile, and with a tour for Argentina
Currently, I am living in Berlin, developing my career through collaborations with visual artists and teaching between Germany and Finland, and also pursuing a master's degree in Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism at the London Contemporary Dance School – THE PLACE.
TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS
I hold Bachelor Degree in Dance with mention in pedagogy in the Academia de Humanismo University where I was continue working like a Teacher for almost 10 years specially in the cathedra of Choreographic Composition, Eukinética and movement for actors. Parallel to my work in the University i developed the personal projects of workshop for not profesional people.
In the last year I was doing workshop in Finland for ISEAS: International Socially Engaged Art Symposium from 2019 to today where i was invited like Artist and teacher of movement and in the same way was invited to the International Art Simposium Scampía, Naples Italy. In this events I have deepened in the concept of Community Dance with wich I want continue developed my pedagogic career
WORKS
My choreographic work start with a strong connection with the Modern Dance and the Chilean Master Patricio Bunster, and was developed in the Dance career in the Academia de Humanismo University and in the Espiral Dance Company.
From 2012 with the creation of the project Al Margen I get evolved into more about the Scenic space and the relation with the spectator getting interested in the installation, mapping and performance where the improvisation on the stage is the way to approach the scene.
My focus is always in the reality so that the empirical studio of this, prior to the body investigation it is essential for the creation of the body language of each proposal
PORTFOLIO
Teaching and workshops
The workshops focus on the methodology of community dance where the aim is to induce movement in a way that respects all bodies, welcoming all differences and wanting to broaden the horizons of all involved, in a friendly, somatic and diverse way.
These workshops have developed from the workshops "Cuerpo Presente" and "Cuerpo-Rrquitectura" in Santiago de Chile and in recent years in ISEAS Finland and in Scampia in Naples, Italy.
Chilean eyes mutilated by German weapons
Performance that denounces the mutilation of Chilean eyes by the national police as a result of the social outbreak in October 2019.
The walls are covered by more than 300 faces representing the exact number of victims at that time.
Collective creation with Chilean visual artist and Chilean dancers. Berlin ,2019
3X6: An emergency housing report
3x6 is a installation of a "mediagua" bodily intervened and with video mapping that look for at going deep in and investigate the psychological, physical and emotional consequences on living in overcrowding.
Mediaagua is the name given to the emergency house that the state of Chile delivers to people in cases of extreme precariousness or natural disasters; it is measures 3x6 meters.
Blanqueamiento - Whitening
Performance made for The Chilean Connexion Festival that denounces the murder by the state and business power to indigenous and social leaders in Chile.
The names of the victims are named while the action is performed.
Collective creation with Chilean visual artist and Chilean dancers.
Berlin,2020
REC: Body, Register, Memory
REC is a visual, sound and body installation, which uses the cassette and the recorded memory in this object as dramaturgical and action axis, generating an interdisciplinary proposal that can be traveled and intervened by the spectator, Is a rescue of Personal memory seeking to reconstruct a collective memory.
Empathy
Original version of the video created for the exhibition "Our Shared Food" at the Lapua Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland.
This work realized under the framework of ISEAS 2022, International Socially Engaged Art Symposium. and creative participation of Seijanovic's secondary school students.
Curated by Katja Juhola.
Spirit of the Forrest.
Land Art Video, Lapland, Finland
Synastry: Earth and Man
The video reflects the power and vastness of the forest in front of the body, and how the body seeks dialogue with this immensity.
It is an attempt to connect with the energies present and reflect them into movement and drawing. It is a body given to the powers of nature.
The video was made in winter 2021 in Akäslompolo, Lapland, Finland within the framework of the ISEAS creative residency for the collective exhibition held in August 2021 at the museum in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Video art maked in collaboration with the Iranian Filmaker Abid Adbi currently resident in Finland.
The sound comes from electrical resistance measured by passing a small current through the mushrooms. The changes in resistance are then converted into control signals which determine the rhythm, pitch, timbre and effects parameters of the modular synthesizer. Sound is created by musician MycoLyco. Lapland forest during ISEAS 2020 in Äkäslompolo. Video exhibited in Kellokas Gallerie, Äkäslompolo, Finland.
Others Choreographies
2005 - 2012
Publications
Traces of Memories
Work-in-progress exercise that collects short videos in which hands dance a memory. Collaborators are invited to select an object that evokes a significant memory or recollection, and express it exclusively through their hands, recording this gesture with their mobile phones.
This project is part of my research for the Master’s in Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism at the London Contemporary Dance School – THE PLACE, and is closely linked to my investigation TRANS-MEMORIA, which explores the intersection between Chilean exile in Berlin and former residents of the ex-GDR.
The proposal draws inspiration from Astrid Erll’s theory of transcultural memory, engaging with the ways in which personal memories migrate, transform, and are negotiated between different cultures and generations, mediated through the body and its gestures.