What Can I Expect?
My dances touch on what we all share - the human experience. It is my hope that the audience will share this experience upon seeing the dances. I want to make them feel what it's like to be ruled, defeated, elated, feel hope, loved, lose a loved one, face your own demons, shamed, arrogant, triumphant, stoic, etc. I like my audiences to be touched – if not emotionally, then intellectually. I like them to connect that movement experience to their own experiences outside the art form. It is everyday life magnified, and questioned, and presented in an objective way.

Who Are You?
Louie Cornejo started taking dance classes during his last year in nursing school. He got his AA degree in Nursing in Los Angeles School of Nursing. He received his BFA in Dance at California State University, Long Beach in 2006. While there, he was privileged to dance in an excerpt of Martha Graham's Acts of Light staged by Susan McLain as well as Paul Taylor's Aureole staged by Sharon Kinney among others. He received the Outstanding Student Choreographer at the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for his work "lost/HALVES" in May2006. He had danced with Vox Dance Theatre, Helios Dance Theatre, PTERO Dance Theatre, Keith Glassman and NUGENT Dance in many different venues in Toronto, New York, as well as Los Angeles and Orange Counties. He also creates and works with other dance artists to expand his knowledge in movement, dance theatre, and choreography. His choreography was presented in Emerging Above Ground curated by Holly Johnston as well as in the Martha Knoebel Theatre in Long Beach as part of the Panurgy Project.

 What About the Art?
My art is influenced by my own experiences in terms of love, family, and relationships. It is also influenced by other art forms. I draw a lot from my own experiences and images that I have seen on television, in movies, and art that struck me as poignant. I work with these images and transcend them on stage to make them ethereal and beautiful. I use gestures, improvisations, and games to come up with movements in a dance. I enjoy working with dancers who bring forth different palettes of movements to choose from. My art is open to different interpretations because it is an abstraction of the human experience. I let the dance speak its double or triple meaning. I want it as open to interpretation as possible.