luciana achugar
Mondays & Fridays
March 1, 5, 8, 12
12:30PM - 2:30PM
at Eden's Expressway
$10/cash only
Class Description:
(The Pleasure in) DANCE CLASS
Level: some dance training required
We will connect to a sensual state in our experience of moving through anatomical explorations, connecting the parts of our whole and using imagination and intention to move more fully and with lusciousness. We will dance improvising and learning material from my work, old and new.
Bio:
luciana achugar is an Uruguayan choreographer based in Brooklyn. She moved to New York in 1995 after graduating from Cal Arts. From 1999 to 2003, she worked in a close collaborative relationship with choreographer Levi Gonzalez and has been doing her own independent work since 2002. She has created six independent works, the last one of which The Sublime is Us premiered at Dance Theatre Workshop in October 2008. Her work has been presented in several venues in NY and Montevideo, and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In April 2010 she will premiere her next project, PURO DESEO, at The Kitchen, NYC.
achugar received a BESSIE Award as Creator/Choreographer for her first full evening-length piece Exhausting Love at Danspace Project (2006). In November 2008, she accepted Tere O'Connor's BAX10 "Passing it on Award"; and In April 2009 she received the LMCC President´s Liberty Award.
achugar is a 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee. She was a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Choreography; a 2007 Choreography Fellow of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University and a Sugar Salon Artist, a program developed by WAX in partnership with the Barnard College Department of Dance. She was a 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and has been in Residencies at Barnard College, Bennington College, DTW's Outer/Space Program, the LEX-Dance Summer Residency, MANCC at FSU and at the Daghdha Dance Company in Limerick, Ireland.