About Orlando

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer based in Rhode Island. He is the 2019 recipient of the Fellowship in Choreography from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and a 2019 recipient of the Rebecca Blunk Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. He has presented his solo work at the SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME), On the Boards (Seattle), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), The Activist Body at Brown University (RI), DANCE NOW at Joe’s Pub (NYC), the Provincetown Dance Festival (MA), and La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico). As an actor, he has appeared in productions by Trinity Rep, Spectrum Theater Ensemble, and Arte Latino of New England, and since 2016 he has been involved with Trinity Rep and Rhode Island Latino Arts’ free bilingual theater initiative, Teatro en el Verano. He is a member of the Boston-based tap dance company Subject:Matter, directed by Ian Berg.

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photo: Nikki Lee

Performing with Orlando at Motion State Dance Festival will be composer/saxophonist Danny Fisher-Lochhead.

Danny Fisher-Lochhead grew up in New York and started playing cello when he was young. Later he picked up the saxophone, which continues to be his main access point into the world of music as a performer. A little later still he started to write music more seriously, which has become a substantial part of his musical life. He has released four records as a leader—Tools of the Abstract, Piano Songs, Wake The Baby Up, and On Ceremony on Fishkill Records, which he started with his friend and collaborator Ross Gallagher. He has also appeared as a contributor on a number of records in a variety of different styles. He now lives in Maine, where he is continuing his exploration of music through all of the channels available to him.