Donna Uchizono Company

Donna Uchizono Company (DUC), under the direction of Artistic Director Donna Uchizono, has performed throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. Uchizono received critical recognition for her innovative movement language and distinct wit, recognized by notable commissions for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paula Vogel, David Hammons, and Oliver Sacks. In 2011, after decades of critically acclaimed works that toured nationally/internationally, Uchizono was identified by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) as a master choreographer whose work requires preservation. A United States Artist Awardee, Guggenheim Fellow, Alpert Awardee, NEA’s, NDP’s, NPN’s and Bessie recipient among others, Uchizono has been distinguished by numerous national awards and grants. Active in community programs, she founded the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project, initiated panels on issues in the Dance Field at Dance USA, Danspace Project and Gibney, serves as a panelist for various funding institutions, and served as a mentor for NCCAkron Dance Lab, DoublePlus at Gibney Dance Center, Sugar Salon, and DUC’s choreographic mentorship program. With her 2022 distinction as the only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance, to have received cumulative esteemed national grants and toured a dance company across the US and the world, Uchizono has been tirelessly reaching out to leaders in the field to advocate, uplift, and illuminate the invisibility and omission of national funding/presentation faced by American-born Asian artists, wanting a more balanced distribution of funding/presentation for all Asian artists, both American- and Asian-born.