Hernando Cortez

Dance is…like breathing

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Dance is like breathing from Hernando Cortez on Vimeo.

Shadows of Nesmin

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Shadows of Nesmin from Hernando Cortez on Vimeo.

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2005) Music: Francis Poulenc, excerpts from Concerto for Two Pianos, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Works for Two Pianos Lighting: Trad A Burns Costumes: Christine LaPerna 5 women, 3 men “Unquiet Minds” was originally developed on American Ballet Theatre II, commissioned by ABT Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie. Reworked and re-envisioned for Verb […]

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Unquiet Minds from Hernando Cortez on Vimeo.

Two Hours That Shook The World

[Top: Original Cast, filmed at St. Mark's Church, NYC; Bottom: Verb Ballets, Cleveland Ohio.] Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2002) Set Design and Camera: Edward Hillel Editing: Henry Joost Music: Ges-E and Usman, Niraj Chag, Buffalo Springfield* Original Lighting by Chenault Spence World Premiere: September 12, 2002 Cortez & Co. Contemporary/Ballet, Danspace Project St. Mark’s Church, New […]

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Two Hours That Shook the World from Hernando Cortez on Vimeo.

The Man and the Echo

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2002) Music: Edvard Grieg, “Holdberg Suite” Lighting: Trad Burns Costumes: Edward Sylvia Dancers: Mark Tomasic, Kallie Bokal, Elizabeth Flynn, Catherine Meredith, Barrington Hinds, Anna Roberts, Tracy Vogt World Premiere: September 12, 2002 by Cortez & Co. Contemporary/Ballet at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York City

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Speed

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2003) Music: Alpha Team, DJ Keoki* Original Lighting: Trad Burns Costumes: Gino VenturaWorld Premiere: May 30, 2003, Cleveland Repertory Project Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio Speed/Icarus: One Male Wings/Trixie: Three Females Commissioned by Dancing Wheels/Professional Flair and Sabattino Verlazza for The Icarus Project. *”Speed,” performed by Alpha Team, written/composed by Dane Stewart Roewade […]

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Songs

Choreographed by Hernando Cortez. Music by Gustav Mahler. Originally premiered at Cleveland’s Museum of Natural History (September, 2007), Cortez has reworked and fine-tuned this dance-poem. New sets and costumes by husband and wife team, Robert Katkowsky and Suzy Campbell, add to the haunting lyricism of Songs. Trad A Burns, resident lighting designer, explores themes of […]

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Song and Dance

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2007) Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Don Black and Richard Maltby “Song and Dance” Co-Directed by Scott Spence and Hernando Cortez Produced by The Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, Ohio. Musically Directed by Larry Goodpaster Produced through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals

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Prelude and Six Easy Pieces

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2006) Music: Jonathan Sheffer, “Six Easy Pieces for Piano Solo” – “Three Common-Tone Studies,” “Three Dance Studies” Pianist: Michael Schneider Original Lighting Design: Trad A Burns Costume Design: Suzy Campbell Waltz — Company Prelude after Chopin — 2 women Octave Etude – 1 woman, 1 man Prelude – 1 woman, 1 man […]

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Planet Soup

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (1999) Music: Afro-Celtic Sound System, Dead Can Dance* Original Lighting: Chenault Spence Costumes: Edward Sylvia World Premiere: 1999, Cortez & Co. Contemporary/Ballet Limelight Theater, New York, New York Full Company Set to the Afro-Celt Sound System and other contemporary World Music artists, the company’s new signature piece unifies folk and vernacular dances […]

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Ocean Depths

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2007) Music: Richard D. Rinehart Lighting: Trad A Burns Costumes: Suzy Campbell 7 women, 3 men The creation of Ocean Depths is supported by RSIS; a NASA Glenn contractor and The Bascom Little FundAn Underwater Fantasy

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MoonDogg – A Rock ‘n Roll Fantasia

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2003) Music: Various Early Rock ‘N Roll Artists* Costumes: Philip Heckman Lighting: Chenault Spence World Premiere: December 12, 2003 Metro Theatre, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio. Full Company Major funding for MoonDogg provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. *”Right Now, Right Now,” performed by Alan Freed and His Rock & […]

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Frontrow

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2008) Music: Eric Ziolek, Verbtuosity; David Lang, “Cheating, Lying, Stealing,” Lighting: Trad A Burns Set: Jordan Katz, Grafix Plastics Costumes: Studio Sangha and Gina Dudik 4 women, 2 men The creation of Verbtuosity was funded by the Bascom Little Fund. Special Thanks to Jordan Katz, Grafix Plastics. Amidst vertical silver panels, Cortez […]

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Dance is like breathing…

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Chichester Psalms

Choreography: Hernando Cortez (2003) Music: Leonard Bernstein* Lighting: Chenault Spence Costumes: Janet Bolick World Premiere: December 12, 2003 Metro Theatre, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio. Full Company *”Chichester Psalms,” written/composed by Leonard Bernstein, published by The Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC (ASCAP)

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