Donna Uchizono

Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer.

Life and career

Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company based in New York City. A Guggenheim Fellow and United States Artist awardee, Donna Uchizono has received many awards and grants for her work including both National Endowment for the Arts Company Project Grants (8) and Fellowships (3), MAP Fund (4), Alpert Award, "Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award, Jerome Foundation (3), National Performance Network Commission and Touring support (4) Creative Capital, both National Dance Project Commission (2) and Touring support (2), Dance Magazine Grant, and Metropolitan Life, among many other awards including extensive New York State and New York City sustained funding.

She was born on a US Army base in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Southern California. In California she danced with the dance companies of Jeff Slayton and Dancers and Lynn Dally and Dancers. While dancing with Jeff Slayton and Dancers, she received a B.A. in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, California. In 1986, Uchizono moved to New York City, where she lives and works.

She was a founding member and serves on the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, where she also served as chair from 1990-1995. In 1990 she established the Donna Uchizono Company dedicated to dance performance, where she serves as artistic director.

Honors and awards

*2021, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 National Endowment for the Arts
*2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014 New York State Council for the Arts
*2019 New Music USA
*2018 Dance Advancement Fund (made possible by the Ford Foundation)
*2016 United States Artist Award
*2002, 2004 NEFA's National Dance Project
*2002 New York Dance and Performance Award
*2002 Creative Capital Grant
*1999, 2003, 2004 Rockefeller Foundation MAP Grant
*1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
*1996, 00, 04 New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship
*1995-93 National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship

Works

Selected works include:
*2018 ''March Under an Empty reign''
*2016 ''Sticky Majesty''
*2016 ''Break''
*2013 ''Fire Underground''
*2013 ''Out of Frame''
*2012 ''excerpt of Seven''
*2011 ''Revisiting Drinking Ivy''
*2010 ''longing two''
*2009 ''50 Miles from Forsyth''
*2008 ''Badlands''
*2007 ''Thin Air''
*2006 ''Leap to Tall''
*2006 ''Moving Liszt''
*2005 ''Approaching Green''
*2005 ''Hug''
*2004 ''Butterflies from my Hand''
*2002 ''Low''
*2001 ''Featherweight''
*2000 ''On Shaky Ground''
*1999 ''Invitados''
*1999 ''Summer Sprinkle''
*1999 ''Opening''
*1999 ''State of Heads''
*1998 ''Catching''
*1998 ''The Wayne Sisters''
*1998 ''Teetering High''
*1997 ''Me Emociono''
*1997 ''Fly Bye Buenos Aires''
*1997 ''Falling Upward''
*1996 ''Sipping Air''
*1995 ''quietly goes a giant jane''
*1994 ''Drinking Ivy''
*1994 ''Iron Wings''
*1994 ''Angels on Granite''
*1994 ''Fax Me''
*1993 ''A Sage Passage''
*1993 ''Improvisation''
*1993 ''The Interview''
*1993 ''Four Play''
*1992 ''Desiree''
*1992 ''Flores Para Lorenzo''
*1992 ''Clandestina''
*1991 ''The Wayne Brothers''
*1991 ''it comes in threes''
*1991 ''Talking Ball''
*1991 ''Recollection Bruise''
*1990 ''San Andreas''
*1990 ''Siren''
*1990 ''Fault''
*1990 ''Pelican Dive''
*1989 ''Accommodations''
*1989 ''Waving, Not Drowning''
*1989 ''short tahitian temper''
*1989 ''Leaning Tall''
*1988 ''Surfacing''
*1988 ''Water on the Knee''

References

External links

Donna Uchizono Company
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Living people
Modern dancers
Contemporary dance choreographers
Dance in New York City
People from Tokyo
California State University, Long Beach alumni
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
Long Island University faculty
Bessie Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)