luciana achugar

luciana achugar

luciana achugar is a two-time Bessie Award recipient choreographer from Uruguay, based in Brooklyn, whose work is concerned with the post-colonial world, searching for an undoing of power structures from the inside out.

After graduating from Cal Arts in 1995 she moved to New York City to work with several influential choreographers including Jeremy Nelson, Will Swanson, Maria Hassabi, Chameckilerner … read more

Hatchery Project Artist | May 16- 27, 2015

An Epilogue for OTRO TEATRO: True Love

Hatchery Project Artist luciana achugar returned to MANCC following her premiere of OTRO TEATRO in spring 2014 to develop her next work, An Epilogue for OTRO TEATRO: True Love. While in residence, she continued the work of searching for another kind of theater, one that gives voice to the body’s essential desire to move, to set free a new “post-civilized” self, and to resist Western … read more

luciana achugar
luciana achugar
Peter Jacobs and Nikima Jagudajev
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
Oren Barnoy
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing
luciana achugar discussion the OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue showing

Michael Mahalchick
Molly Lieber
Michael Mahalchick
Peter Jacobs
Oren Barnoy
Jennifer Krasinski
Molly Lieber
luciana achugar talks with her collaborators
OTRO TEATRO: The Epilogue
luciana achugar talks with her collaborators
FSU Biology Faculty members Nora Underwood and Brian Inouye talk with achugar
achugar and writer Jennifer Krasinski

Collaborators in Residence: Oren Barnoy, Nikima Jagudajev, Jennifer Kjos, Molly Lieber, Michael Mahalchick, Gillian Walsh [performers}, Peter Jacobs [performer/musician], Jennifer Krasinski [writer]. Slideshow photos by Chris Cameron

Choreographic Fellow | October 14 – 27, 2007

The Sublime is Us

Achugar explored the ideas of transparency, honesty, humility, and vulnerability. She and her four dancers began shaping entrypoints to garner research about how audience and performers might create a communal dance ritual, where dancing feels like a necessary and unquestionable act and a celebration of sensuality and pleasure.

"The … read more