Vientos del pueblo

Show tracing the life and work of the poet Miguel Hernández, combining contemporary dance, live music, acting and documentary video.

Vientos del pueblo offers a view of Miguel Hernández that steers clear of the clichés that made him a banner, a martyr or a sad poet-goatherd. The production seeks to restore him to his condition as a passionate militant for life, through the trajectory of an author who, in barely twelve years of production, left four thousand pages of writing. He died at 31, in a turbulent time divided between the Republic and the war, and the show takes up the idea of Antonio Buero Vallejo, who described him as a necessary poet.

On stage, the production combines live music, acting and contemporary dance performed by Andrés Corchero. The staging is completed with documentary video.

The starting point is a question: why return to Miguel Hernández? As the production itself maintains, one does not return to the classics, but rather remains in them. Teatre del Raval is the Barcelona venue that hosts this production.