The dancer Yasser Domínguez, founding artist of Acosta Danza, has been awarded the Ramiro Guerra 2022 Award, in the Best Male Contemporary Dance Performer category, awarded by the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), a cultural organization that brings together some of the most relevant Cuban writers, artists, intellectuals and promoters under 35 years of age.
Yasser Domínguez Oquendo was born in Guantánamo. In 2006 started his dance studies in the Vocational Art School Regino E. Boti. In 2009, he continued his training in the profesional art school “Manuel Muñoz Cedeño”. In his third year of the médium level he won the First Award for male interpretation in the first edition of the Contest Ernestina Quintana.
In 2011 he became part of the cast of Contemporay Dance of Cuba, under the direction of maestro Miguel Iglesias. With this Company he has danced MeKniksmo, Mambo 3XXI, Identidad- 1, Matria Etnocentra by George Céspedes, Demo-N/ Crazy by Rafael Bonachela, Tocororo, Cuban Tale by Carlos Acosta, Folía and Compás by Jan Linkens, Sombrisa by Itzik Galili, El cristal by Julio César Iglesias, Carmen by Kenneth Kvarntrom and Casi by Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio. With this company he has danced in Colombia, Suiza y Polonia.
He was choreographer and dancer of Bolero, Show directed by Miguel Rubio and presented at the Fábrica de Arte Cubano.
Domínguez has been a dancer for Acosta Danza since 2015. He has danced choreographic pieces by Carlos Acosta (Carmen, Tocororo Suite, Don Quixote escenes), Goyo Montero (Alrededor no hay nada, Llamada and Imponderable), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Faun), María Rovira (Babbel 2.0 and El salto de Nijinsky), Mickael Marso Riviere (Hokiri), Alexis Fernández (Maca) (De punta a cabo), Ely Regina Hernández (Avium), Pontus Lidberg (Paysage, soudain, la nuit), Jorge Crecis (Twelve), Christopher Bruce (Rooster), Norge Cedeño (Hybrid), Juanjo Arqués (Portal), Micaela Taylor (Performance) and Juliano Nunes (Mundo interpretado).
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