Adel Hernandez is a queer Latinx dance-based performance artist, and performance and dance studies scholar. They use movement from the hips— to the chest— and throughout the limbs, isolations, and delays of movement exploring and responding to our cultural terrain. The movement-based work produced comes from their ancestors and their queerness. They make work that tells stories of liminal beings and landscapes, and explores pleasures and desires through contemporary dance and performance art.   

 

Adel has performed and set choreographic works at Dixon Place Theatre, NYU 80WSE Gallery, and Gibney Dance Center in New York City, New Mexico University for the American College Dance Festival, and in San Antonio, Texas at Jump-Start Theater and on the Northwest Vista College Repertory Dance Ensemble. They also performed in the works by Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Movement Research Artists’ David Thomson and Joanna Kotze at The New School, and in San Antonio for SpareWorks.dance.

 

They have taught in afterschool programs K-5th grade creating lesson plans in Creative Dance for Dream Charter School in NYC. After teaching in afterschool programs they taught dance courses in Ballet, Jazz, and Modern at San Antonio College.

They received a Master of Arts in Performance Studies at New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts double majoring in Theater, and The Arts concentrating in Dance at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

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