luciana achugar was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1995 she moved to NY after graduating from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Dance. Since then she has worked with many great dance and visual artists such as ChameckiLerner, Levi Gonzalez, Maria Hassabi, John Jasperse, Luis Lara, Amanda Loulaki, Michael Mahalchick, Jeremy Nelson, Marcos Rosales and Wil Swanson. From 1999 to 2003 achugar collaborated with Levi Gonzalez on three dance works that were presented by Dixon Place, Movement Research at the Judson Church, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop. Her own work was presented in New York by Movement Research at the Judson Church and the MELT Summer Dance Festival; Dance Theater Workshop; Danspace Project; the Ensemble Studio Theater; The Latino American Dance: Not Festival Project; Sugar Salon at the Abrons Arts Center; CANADA Art Gallery; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery; in Cambridge, MA at the Green Street Studios and in Montevideo, Uruguay at the Festival Iberoamericano de Danza and the Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo. In 2007 achugar received a BESSIE award for her first full evening-length work "Exhausting Love at Danspace Project" which premiered in November 2006. Her work has received support from the Meet the Composer Fund; the Puffin Foundation; the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund; and from public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was a 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a program funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust. She was a 2007 Choreography Fellow of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University and Sugar Salon Artist, a program developed by WAX in partnership with the Barnard College Department of Dance. Her current project "The Sublime is Us" (working title) will premiere in October 2008 at Dance Theater Workshop.
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luciana achugar