Ballet Program | Master Class Artist
June 18
Erica Cornejo is a world-renowned Principal Ballerina, featured on the cover of Pointe Magazine and Dance Magazine, and Co-Founder/ Artistic Director of INTEGRARTE. Cornejo has performed as a soloist at American Ballet Theatre and as Principal Dancer at Boston Ballet. Her diverse repertoire includes Anna-Marie Holmes’ Corsaire, George Balanchine’s Emeralds, Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote, Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, and William Forsythe’s The Second Detail and The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. Cornejo has received great recognition during her career; performing a special tribute held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York honoring both President Bill Clinton and Argentine President Carlos Menem in 1998 and dancing for President George Bush at the White House seven years later. She is a certified teacher by the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum and has taught at the Boston Ballet Summer Programs among others.