Joyce Theater

Longtime American Ballet Theatre principal Herman Cornejo, who was born in Buenos Aires, is the creator of a full-length work freely adapted from Caaporá, an abandoned 1915 libretto (by Argentina's Ricardo Guiraldes and Alfredo González Garaño) that was intended to be staged by the legendary aslav Nijinsky. The piece is inspired by the indigenous Guaraní people's legend of the mystical Urutaú bird. The production features choreography by Anabella Tuliano and an original score by Luis Maurette "Uji" and Noelia Escalzo; it is performed by Cornejo with Tuliano's Argentinian dance company, Grupo Cadabra.

It takes two to tango, and Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi have famously done just that, rising to the highest levels of international acclaim in their passionate dance of choice; among other honors, they are both winners of the World Tango Championship. They make their Joyce debut, joined by eight other dancers, in an evening of Argentine seduction and flair conceived and choreographed by Cornejo and set to music by tango king Astor Piazzolla. 

The German company Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, founded by Canadian expat Eric Gauthier, made its Joyce debut in 2017 with a full-length ballet about the Russian dance legend Vaslav Nijinsky. It returns in 2025 with a varied bill that includes Gauthier's own solo piece ABC as well as three works by Israeli dance makers: Sharon Eyal's envy-themed Point and Hofesh Shechter's Swan Lake riff ;Swan Cake—both commissioned by the company—and Ohad Naharin's ebullient and much-loved 1999 neostandard Minus 16.

Chicago's popular Hubbard Street, under the guidance of artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, returns to its NYC pied-à-terre at the Joyce Theatre. The program this time comprises Ohad Naharin's early all-male quintet Black Milk (1990) and the New York premieres of FLOCK's Into Being, Johan Inger’s Impasse and resident artist Aszure Barton's A Duo.