Donna Uchizono

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Donna Uchizono Company, under the direction of Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono, has performed throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. Uchizono has received public and critical recognition for her innovative movement language and distinct wit, recognized by notable commissions for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paula Vogel, David Hammons, and Oliver Sacks. In 2011, after decades of critically-acclaimed dance works that toured nationally and internationally, Donna Uchizono was identified by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) and Dance Heritage Coalition as a master choreographer whose works require preservation. In addition to being a Guggenheim Fellow, United States Artists Fellow, and Bessie Award winner, Uchizono has been recognized by many awards, including an Alpert Award in Dance and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Foundation for Contemporary Performance, National Performance Network, Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Greenwall Foundation, and New Music USA, among many others.

Uchizono has been recently distinguished by the NYPL as the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance to have received the recognition of both cumulative esteemed national awards and significant national and international touring of an eponymous dance company.

Uchizono is one of three choreographers creating the tri-section piece March to premiere in the Opening Season at the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in December 2023.

excerpts from March Under An Empty reign (2019) 8:37 min (p) from Donna Uchizono Company on Vimeo.

Donna Uchizono Co – excerpt of Thin Air (2007) virtual-live solo 3:48 from Donna Uchizono Company on Vimeo.

excerpts of Butterflies from my Hand (2003) 16:38 (p) from Donna Uchizono Company on Vimeo.

excerpt of Low 2002 (Duet) from Donna Uchizono Company on Vimeo.

State of Heads from Donna Uchizono Company on Vimeo.