Donna Uchizono is a dance artist based in New York City and Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company, which has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. A United States Artist Awardee, Guggenheim Fellow and "Bessie" recipient, Uchizono has been distinguished by numerous national awards and grants. She has been commissioned to create work for notables Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paula Vogel, David Hammons and Oliver Sacks. Uchizono is active in the community and is committed to mentorship/advocacy for young dance makers. She served as a mentor for Sugar Salon, DoublePlus at Gibney Dance Center and currently through Donna Uchizono Company’s own choreographic mentorship program, “Shared Choreographic Practice.” She founded the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project, initiated a panel series on issues in the Dance Field at Gibney and has served as a grants panelist for various funding institutions. 

 

Since 2022, Uchizono has been humbled by the distinction of being the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry in the history of Modern Dance, who has received cumulative national award recognition and toured an eponymous dance company across the US and internationally. She has been continuously grappling with issues of invisibility/visibility, and the subsequent sense of isolation from the lack of American-born of Asian descent dance mentor(s) who share the experience of growing up with the invisibilized scars of racism.