Donna Uchizono

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Donna Uchizono
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Years active1983 - present

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.

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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.

Donna Uchizono, confirmed by the New York Library for the Performing Arts, has been distinguished as being the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance, who has received cumulative national award recognition and toured an eponymous dance company across the US and internationally. She has been an dance advocate in bringing light to the invisibility and perpetual foreigner syndrome that American-born of Asian descent face.. [1]

Honors and awards

Works

Selected works include:

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References

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