Erick Aguirre Cisneros He was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, but spent much of his life in Toluca.
Due to his father’s work, he also lived for a time in Mexico City and Acapulco, where he has his first memory of dancing.
“My first contact with dance -I remember- was at a party, I was 12 or 13 years old and I told my mom that I wanted to learn to dance cumbia, the next day she started teaching me in my living room and I liked it. much. At that time I did not see it as a way of life, I let it go, “said Erick.
However, the dance did not want to leave him, since in the high school they organized a reactivation day where they offered salsa workshops.
At that time he practiced basketball and the training sessions had the same schedule as the workshop, so he did not see it as an option, at least until he started dating someone who was in that basketball class. danza.
“I met Fernanda Leyva and we started dating, she was in the salsa workshop, so I went in too. Little by little I stopped going to basketball, I began to like salsa a lot until I completely gave up everything else.
That was my first approach, yes, it was for a girl, ”Erick recalled with a laugh.
At that moment he thought he had discovered a hobby
As he comments, he was very clear that he should be an engineer, not because he was passionate about it, but because he was good at mathematics and physics and they entertained him.
So it was, for the university he entered the Sustainable Development Engineering career, but it was also at this stage that he discovered the passion he felt for his art.
“I realized that I was very passionate about it at university because I included more dance classes in my schedule than normal classes during the day and I began to see it as another option, but I never thought of dedicating myself exclusively to dance because since I was a child they tell you that Being an artist doesn’t work, it’s not going to feed you and the truth in Mexico is true.
That is why you do not see the possibility of making a career as an artist”, Erick Aguirre mentioned.
For this stage of his life he diversified dance, continued with salsa but continued with jazz and contemporary dance.
He comments that he was more likely to skip a college class than his dance classes, though on reflection he confessed that he was reluctant in his love of art for some time.
“As if I was lying to myself, I told myself that I had to finish my degree, but deep inside me, subconsciously, I knew that I wanted to dedicate myself to this.
From so much that they tell you, you think that being a dancer is not a real career, and it is not even that they are telling you all the time, it is that it is something that took root in you, one thinks that it is so, ”he confessed.
Erick Aguirre seeks his engineering in Cuernavaca
Where his brother also studied, but due to family situations he had to return to Toluca.
This was where the foundations of what is now their way of life were forged: dance.
By the time he arrived in the Mexican capital he was more focused on contemporary dance, it was his thing. It turns out that the basis of this dance is ballet, something that he began to know and enjoy.
“In contemporary dance we had a ballet day, everyone hated it but I loved it. Already in Toluca I knew that I needed to do something because I would not take that semester at the university. My sister took classes at the School of Fine Arts and I went with the director to look for the contemporary to train me, but she suggested I enter ballet because they needed boys and the schedules were perfect for me, so I did, and they immediately began to give me opportunities because it is a dance in which there are hardly any men”, explained Erick Aguirre.
He began to “get hooked” with ballet and after those six months he returned to study, however, here was only the common trunk of his career, so his only academic option was to leave the city for Puebla or Monterrey, being the city north your choice.
He relates that before looking for a place to live or anything else, he took on the task of finding where he could continue with his art, until he found the Superior School of Music and Dance of Monterrey, which is one of the best in Mexico in ballet.
“I saw her and said -it would be cool to enter- because she also has a degree specializing in men, but the audition was before I left for Monterrey, anyway I filed my papers and planned to go there with the help of a friend that he let me stay in his chair.
How after two months they published the results, it had remained. I didn’t believe it because I had been in that discipline for less than 8 months,” Aguirre said.
That was how a new adventure began for the dancer
But an even greater challenge, since he had to deal with doing two careers in different schools at the same time, having shifts of around 20 hours, taking into account the tasks he had to fulfill.
Despite all her effort, the first year she failed her degree in dance, which was graded with a routine at the end of the year, but like any school they allowed her to retake it.
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However, he failed the test again, which caused him to be permanently discharged.
At that stage there was depression and crying, thinking that he was not someone fit for dance. There is a saying that says “when she touches you even if you take off and when not even if you put on”.
The following week, Rolando, a friend with whom he was studying in both careers, asked him to accompany him to an audition that turned out to be for the academy in Victoria, Canada.
“It took them a day to notify us and it turned out that he was inside, they explained to us that in a few more days they would notify those who awarded him a full scholarship, but I thought it was unlikely that they would even give me a scholarship.
Some time later I received an email notifying me that I had obtained a 100 percent scholarship during the first year,” Erick mentioned.
When he mentioned it at home he found the support of his family, even he did not believe it, he tells us that he asked his father if he was serious to which his father replied that the experience of being abroad is something he needed to live.
Today Erick Aguirre lives from his passion
He managed to complete his career in Victoria, where he learned other types of techniques and had the opportunity to tour that country with the classic Nutcracker and later emigrate to Vancouver.
He is currently part of a company in California, where he has had the opportunity to be in charge of performances and recently was part of a musical in the United States.
However, this story is not over, as it aims to seek a postgraduate degree in Europe, where the ballet elite is found, aimed at being the choreographer of stagings, curiously, returning to contemporary dance; where it all really began.
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