Donna Uchizono is a dance artist based in New York City and the artistic director of Donna Uchizono Company, receiving public and critical recognition for her innovative movement language and distinct wit, and was commissioned to create work for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paula Vogel, Oskar Eustis, David Hammons, and Oliver Sacks. In 2011, after decades of critically acclaimed dance works that toured nationally and internationally, Donna Uchizono was identified by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) and Dance Heritage Coalition as a master choreographer whose works require preservation. Uchizono has been recently distinguished by the NYPL as the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance, to have received the recognition of both cumulative esteemed national awards and significant national and international touring of an eponymous dance company.
This designation recognizes receipt of a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artist Award, National Endowment for the Arts Company Project Awards and Fellowships, MAP Fund, Alpert Award, “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance Award, Jerome Foundation, National Performance Network Commission and Touring support Creative Capital, National Dance Project Commission and Touring support, Dance Magazine, MetLife, among many other awards including extensive New York State and New York City sustained funding and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
