In the afternoon of this Wednesday November 16, in the legislature of the city of Buenos Aires, the dancer Hermann Corneior was declared an outstanding personality in the field of culture. This recognition has not infrequently been awarded to dance artists, but in this case it is someone who, like Cornejo, has lived outside Argentina for 25 years. It is for this reason that being selected as an Outstanding Personality has a special meaning for him.
It was a short and discreet act, very much in line with the natural discretion of this artist who was really unaware of any division. He was accompanied to the table by the city’s Minister of Culture, Enrique Avogadro; the director of the Teatro Colón, Jorge Telerman, and the deputy Claudio Romero, from which the initiative of this honor in Cornejo was born.
In a meeting before the event, Herman Cornejo commented: “Every recognition is important for an artist, but for me this one in particular is very important because it happens in my country”.
Herman was a teenager of just seventeen when he entered the American Ballet Theater in New York; he there he remains to this day. He is one of the first nine dancers of this company of great international prestige, of which they too were part. Julius Mouth, where herrera and also the wonderful dancer Erica Cornejo, sister of Herman.
“A way to make my dreams come true”
He goes on to say, “These nearly twenty-five years spent in New York have been a way of making my dreams come true, which actually began to come true the very moment I joined American Ballet Theatre, the company I always wanted to be in. , since I was eleven years old and studying at the Instituto del Colón. These results have been given together with my status as an Argentinian. Namely, I am known as “Herman Cornejo, the Argentine dancer”.
-And what do you recognize most about that condition?
-I look back and when I see all the efforts made to move forward, improve, have desires and satisfy them, well, I don’t see anything more Argentinian than this! The roots are never lost and I always like to come back here, dance at the Teatro Colón and create new projects in Argentina. It is a very nice recognition and also, why lie, much awaited. I don’t look for it, but if it touches me, it gives me great joy.
-You were talking about projects here, what were you referring to?
These acknowledgments make us more visible and this is very useful for spreading a new work, soul, in which I left the post of interpreter. It comes from my script and also the choice of music and general direction are mine. But to create the choreography I invited Anabella Tuliano, director of the contemporary dance group Cadabra. This project allowed me to tackle things with a lot of history.
-What do you mean?
–soul It is inspired by the Guarani cultures, so earthbound and also so spiritual. It is another way of showing Argentina and at the same time we can convey an important message with it in these times. I was telling you that recognition like the one they’re giving me today helps spread artistic projects that talk about caring for the earth and environmental problems.
And for people who don’t know much about ballet, it’s a way to show them that stage dance encompasses many different things.
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Source: Clarin
