Tenerife-born dancer Daniel Abreu, who got three Max Awards of the Performing Arts 2018 -best performance, bets choreography and best show for “La desnudez”-, will be the artistic director of Lava, the new Auditorio de Tenerife resident dance company. Daniel Abreu, Premio Nacional de Danza 2014, said he was delighted to “work for the Canaries in this new project”.

Lava is a company made up of six contemporary dancers and their first show will be on at Festival de Tenerife, to take place next autumn. “The idea it to bring choreographers from different parts of the world so they can share with our dancers their views on dance” Abreu revealed. He will combine his work at Lava with managing his company and the different choreographic commissions he receives every year.

“When I started, I’d have liked to have something like Lava to further and improve my development as a dancer”, the award-winning artists stated. In his view, “a company is the place where a dancer develops”. Daniel Abreu bears in mind that “through Lava we want to recover Canarian dancers who had to leave the island. Canarian dancers have much to contribute to dance”, he said.

Daniel Abreu thinks that, “the problem with contemporary dance is the programmers, not the audience”. “Contemporary dance is part of the Canaries and people like José Luis Rivero, Roberto Torres or Natalia Medina are fundamental”, the Lava director maintained, who in addition to the three Max awards, he boasts a long list of prizes in recognition of his work. “Thanks to the national award I’ve been able to present my work with a bit less energy because now it is known: the prize guarantees quality,” the award-winning dancer said.