Orlando Hernández & The Knee-Heart Connection share excerpts from Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands, an adventurous tap dance-theater work featuring live music, masks, and physical storytelling. The showing will revisit prior material alongside new work developed during their Works & Process residency at Bridge Street Theatre.

Orlando Hernández and the Knee-Heart Connection is a dance-theater project led by Orlando Hernández. It uses techniques and technologies of tap dance, mask-work, physical theater, jazz music, and improvisation to create unique experiences of rhythm + reflection, with a particular perspective in the Puerto Rican diaspora. This work has been supported and presented by New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks, Dance Now at Joe's Pub, the CUNY Dance Initiative, the Center for Performance Research, the Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor, thePioneers Go East Collective, the Judson Church, Changing Times Tap Initiative, and the Jerome Foundation. 

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer based in NY. He is a member of the companies Music from the Sole and Subject:Matter.