luciana achugar
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I am a Brooklyn based choreographer originally from Uruguay. Since 1999, I have been creating independent work that questions a “civilized” standard of beauty and order that puts the body under the tyranny of the intellect. From 1999 to 2003, I worked collaboratively with Levi Gonzalez. Since 2002, I have created six independent works which have been presented throughout NY downtown venues, in Cambridge, MA and in Uruguay.
My last work PURO DESEO premiered at The Kitchen in April 2010. Most recently, The Sublime is Us premiered at DTW in October ’08, in May 2009 my piece A Super Natural Return to Love (2004) was presented by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
I received a BESSIE award for her first evening-length show Exhausting Love at Danspace Project (2006) and another for PURO DESEO at The Kitchen (2010). In November 2008, I accepted a BAX10 “Passing it on” Award from artist Tere O’Connor, and in April 2009, I received the LMCC President’s Liberty Award.
I was a 2008 NYFA fellow in Choreography and a 2008 recipient of Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD), a program of New York Foundation for the Arts. I was a 2007 Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, FSU; and a 2007 Sugar Salon Artist. I was a 2001-2003 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a program funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust.
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