luciana achugar
DANCE RESEARCH FELLOW
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). 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.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
As a Research Fellow, I will enter the studio with a less goal oriented approach. I am, first and foremost, interested in developing my dance teaching, and will work on developing exercises that will allow me to teach movement, being connected in the body in a way that is very specific to my own philosophies about the body, and the pleasure of being in the body in general.
I am also looking forward to curating a show early next year, and am looking forward to leading a panel discussion with the artists and audience. Not only am I interested in engaging the community in an artistic exchange but also in creating a much needed critical discussion about work and making work. I am especially thrilled by the possibility of transcribing the discussion and posting it online or printing it for distribution.
Now that I have finished the first year of my residency and my last work, I am already feeling the itch to begin to improvise. I have some ideas about where my work may go next, but I don’t want to immerse myself straight into the making of a new piece. Instead, I am excited about working without having the pressure to show, to see if I can truly focus the process as research and not as a means toward production.
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