Joseph Hernandez

Choreographer and performer Joseph Hernandez was based in Dresden, Germany before returning to the United States in 2023. Born in Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1988, he graduated from the School of American Ballet in 2007 and was awarded an apprenticeship with the New York City Ballet that same year. As a dancer, he has performed all over the world with companies such as the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and the Semperoper Ballett. His choreographic work has been presented to critical acclaim by such organizations as Festspielhaus Hellerau, The Semperoper Ballett, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Theatre St. Gallen (Switzerland), NW Dance Project, and Whim W’him. His work The Lavender Follies was filmed for television and distributed across Europe and Asia. He was nominated “New Name To Watch“ by Dance Europe magazine for the premiere of his work Ganz Leise Kommt die Nacht/ The Night Falls Quietly, which premiered at the Joyce Theatre NYC in 2017. Joseph was a winner of NW Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition in 2019 and created his first work for the organization the same year. He returned in 2021, creating on the dancers in NW Dance Project’s MOVE summer project. In 2022, Joseph created bye bye for now, a curious and compelling work that mixed contemporary dance with absurdist theater and experimental video art. Later that same year, Joseph was appointed NW Dance Project's first Associate Choreographer. In 2023, he will create a radically re-imagined version of the classic ballet Petrushka for NW Dance Project. (joseph-hernandez.com)