Director: Javier Vaquero Ollero
Interpretation: Bea Fernández and Javier Vaquero
Produced by: Mi Otro Trabajo
With the help of: ARTAS y La Poderosa (Barcelona) yandCentro de Investigaciones Coreográficas (Mexico)

H A P P Y E N D I N G is a creation project that investigates and creates a visual reference for the idea of death and the dead body.
My interest in these two ideas and all the concepts associated to them comes from a personal experience during a Shiatsu massage. The therapist was continually manipulating my body. At some point I started talking to myself about my body, as if my body were something alien to me. Giving myself up physically to the therapist and to gravity, offering my body, unleashed a curiosity about the availability of the dead body and the distance that it generates between conscience and the body.
This recently premiered project in its most embryonic state plays with these concepts in order to generate visions and performance elements: the threshold – the dead body and gravity – the dead body and weightlessness – puppets – embodying a dead person – absence and the threshold in one’s gaze -.

BIO
Javier Vaquer Ollero (Toledo, Spain 1984)
began his training in dance and theatre at various centres in Madrid, Andalusia and at the Miguel Hernández University in Altea. In 2003 he moved to Rotterdam to complete the Higher Degree in Contemporary Dance issued by CODARTS. Since then he has worked as performer with several creators including Xavier Le Roy, Nicole Beutler, Hofesh Shechter, Bea Fernández, Aimar Pérez Galí, Conny Janssen Danst, Ann van der Broek, Marta Reig Torres, Dylan Newcomb y Arno Schuitemaker among others. At the moment he is developing his own creative work, with works such as Declarando Amor, Danzas Primitivas and H A P P Y E N D I N G. He also teaches dance at different spaces in Spain and Latin America. He is a founder member of Espacio Practico (Barcelona) and is currently a member of the ARTAS collective, which runs creation and cultural activities centre La Poderosa (Barcelona).