Introduction
Donna Uchizono is an American choreographer.
Life and career
Donna Uchizono was born on a US Army base in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Southern California. Since 1990 she has been the artistic director and choreographer of the New York City-based Donna Uchizono Company.
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
- 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
- 2013, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 National Endowment for the Arts
- 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:
- 2016 Sticky Makesty
- 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