The Joyce Theater Basis (Linda Shelton, Govt Director) celebrates the opening of its Spring/Summer season 2025 Season with lauded dancer Herman Cornejo and Grupo Cadabra in Anima Animal. Finishing a imaginative and prescient for Argentine ballet begun by Vaslav Nijinsky greater than 100 years in the past, the shifting new work will play The Joyce Theater from February 18-23.
In 1917, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky was invited to stage Caaporá, a ballet impressed by the Guarani indigenous legend of the Urutaú fowl — a mystical creature from the forests in northeaster Argentina. Though he accepted, sickness prevented him from finishing what would have been his first “Argentine” ballet. Impressed by Nijinsky’s eternal, groundbreaking inventive imaginative and prescient, famend dancer and American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Principal Dancer Herman Cornejo revived this narrative in Anima Animal, his first ever full-length manufacturing as creator.
Co-produced with the Teatro del Bicentenario in 2022, Anima Animal is a robust, immersive new work that pays homage to a dance work brimming with potential for over a century. A manufacturing created with a whole staff of world-class Argentine artists, the evening-length piece options choreography by award-winning Anabella Tuliano and an unique rating by acclaimed composers DJ UJI and Noelia Escalzo. Will probably be carried out by Cornejo together with Tuliano’s Argentine dance firm, Grupo Cadabra. Opening its Spring/Summer season 2025 Season with a groundbreaking work 100 years within the making, The Joyce invitations audiences to replicate on love, redemption, and compassion for Earth and its creatures.
Cornejo has been a Principal Dancer with ABT since 2003. He has guested for firms together with Teatro alla Scala, Nationwide Ballet of Japan, Kremlin Ballet, New York Metropolis Ballet, Boston Ballet and Hamburg Ballett. Cornejo has acquired distinctions corresponding to a 2013 Bessie Award introduced by the NY Dance & Efficiency League, the 2014 Prix Benois de la Danse as Excellent Male Dancer of the 12 months, Latin Idol by Hispanic Journal, and Dancer of the 12 months by The New York Occasions. His repertoire consists of greater than 90 main roles in classical and modern ballets. He has choreographed Tango y Yo for Dance Open Competition, two sunsets for Dancers In opposition to Most cancers, Transcendence for the Kings of the Dance Tour, Milongón amigo for the Vail Worldwide Dance Competition, Momentum with live performance pianist Bruce Levingston for “Trio Live performance Dance,” and a tribute to New York to the rating of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” for the debut of his new mission DANCELIVE in 2020.
Grupo Cadabra, below the course of Anabella Tuliano, is an impartial Argentine dance firm that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2021. In 2011, the corporate premiered its works Domestícame and Cadabra, acknowledged with the Teatro del Mundo award. Since its creation, the corporate has acquired invites to take part within the Ballet Gala and the Ignacio A. Pane Theater in Asunción, Paraguay. In 2014, the corporate was invited to the distinguished Teatro Independencia in Mendoza with its third work, No te duermas vencido, and in December 2015 carried out a gala celebrating the corporate’s 4 years on the Teatro Maipo in Buenos Aires. Firm repertoire additionally contains Idaki, with music by Astor Piazzolla, and Lo que había que ser, which opened the Teatro del Bicentenario within the Metropolis of San Juan and the Teatro Plaza (Godoy Cruz, Mendoza) in 2018. Later that yr, it might carry out in Resistencia, Chaco, the place its participation was declared of basic curiosity by the provincial senate, and can be a part of the Buenos Aires Up to date Dance Competition on the Centenario Park Amphitheater. Grupo Cadabra has been highlighted by the Argentine Dance Council to be a part of the Worldwide Dance Day program (sponsored by UNESCO) on a couple of event. The corporate has participated within the fundraising occasion Danzar por la Paz, sponsored by Unicef, on the Teatro Nacional Cervantes, on the Teatro Normal San Martín and as a touring firm throughout 2020 within the cities of Córdoba, Rosario and Rafaela; and was invited to bop alongside the Buenos Aires Ballet.
Anima Animal has been acknowledged as one of many 9 most excellent choreographic works of 2020, 2021 and 2022 by the distinguished Teatro del Mundo Awards. This honor, granted by the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas on the College of Buenos Aires, celebrates excellence in Argentine and worldwide theater and has been awarded for over 25 years.
For tickets and extra data, go to www.joyce.org/performances/149/herman-cornejo-with-grupo-cadabra/anima-animal.
