Word: cornejo
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...production is saved by the individual performances that make the whole a pleasurable experience. On Sunday evening, Erica Cornejo was a wispy, lithe Cinderella. Cornejo is a recent import from American Ballet Theatre (ABT), where she received top billing dancing the part of the bespectacled, uncoordinated, and hysterical “other” step-sister two years ago. What was New York’s loss is Boston’s gain: her extraordinary, larger-than-life jump and passionate, explosive movement as Cinderella here is breath-taking. With one step she consumes the whole stage, and you need...
...visual highlight of the performance was the descent of an enormous, illuminated pumpkin into the ballroom, with Cornejo perched elegantly inside, shrouded in a Cruella de Vil-like fur cape. Bachelors in penguin suits escorted bachelorettes with wonderful gusto. As Prince Charming, Nelson Madrigal had all of the second act to lament in a style reminiscent of Prince Siegfried’s melancholy soliloquy in “Swan Lake.” Though lacking overwhelming charisma, he made up for it with his superb partnering of an audacious Cornejo. Her abrupt, instinctual shifts in direction as she leapt...
Kudelka’s decision to cast women as the step-sisters, as opposed to the traditional strategy of employing men, was rooted in the hope that they would pull off the shtick and slap-stick humor with more high-brow jest than the gender-bending farce. Cornejo herself was more naturally entertaining at ABT than were Tempe Ostergren and Megan Gray here, but both are leggy beauties who mugged with aplomb...
...timeless Scotland, “La Sylphide” tells the story of beautiful ideals and possible heartbreak. James (Carlos Molina) and Effie (Melissa Hough), Scottish peasants, are about to be married. But on the day of the wedding, a beautiful, silvery sprite (Erica Cornejo)—the titular “sylph”—appears. She has a strange power over James that brings out his yearning and love, but every time he tries to touch her, she vanishes. When the sylph appears as they are about to take their wedding vows, James follows...
...scenes harnessed an element of drama, which, though artfully rendered, often distracted from the dancing itself. As the character who drove the plot, Molina also had the strongest performance. His turns often lacked energy, but his leaps more than made up for it. Molina consistently out-danced Cornejo, despite her clear talent and clean technique...