Workshop “Feeling is believing”

02/06/2013

Feeling is believing

I like to think of dance class as a chance to grow a new body. I am in a process of developing the language that gives me access to a more sensual, animal, connected, bloody, fleshy, fatty, bony, magical, deeper than even the marrow of the bone, vibrational body; and I’d like to share it with you. We will be using our imagination, our breath and our voice, using touch and also sometimes discussing and learning tools for strengthening connections and for letting go of patterns of use of ourselves. Always moving towards pleasure…

 

luciana achugar (Uruguay/ USA) is a Brooklyn based choreographer from Uruguay. She makes dances to be FELT as they are SEEN and as an occasion for communion. She moved to NY in 1995 after graduating from CalArts. achugar developed her voice as an artist in close dialogue with the NY and Montevideo contemporary dance communities. She began making work collaboratively with Levi Gonzalez in 1999, and in 2002 she started working independently. Her works are concerned with the post-colonial world, searching for an undoing of this abuse of power from the inside out. They’ve been presented in Uruguay, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles and throughout NY. She is a two-time NY Bessie Award recipient and was one of Time Out’s 2010 Best Dance of the Year. She is currently a Creative Capital Grantee and a Guggenheim Fellow. She was a 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Her next evening length work OTRO TEATRO will premiere at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in February 2014.