Donna Uchizono Dance Company Will Perform
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, September 24

The performance will take place on Wednesday, September 24 at noon in the Campus’s Triangle Theater, as part of the Dance Department’s "Afternoons at LIU" concert series.

Based in New York, the company’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, in venues such as the Weiner Internationales Tanz-Festival in Vienna, Austria, the Swiss Belluard-Bollwerk International Festival, the Klapstuk International Dansfestival in Belgium, and the Joyce Theater, Whitney Museum and Lincoln Center in New York.

A critically acclaimed choreographer, Uchizono has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2002 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) award for her work, "Low," and grants from Creative Capital, the Greenwall Foundation and Philip Morris Companies, Inc.

Uchizono is a member of the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, where she was a founding member and chair from 1990 to 1995. Since 1980, she has taught workshops and classes in the U.S., Europe and South America. In the U.S., she has been a guest choreographer at institutions such as Temple University, Barnard College and Bryn Mawr, and has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan University, California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, and the University of Minnesota. She is currently on the faculty at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

The Dance Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus developed its successful "Afternoons at LIU" series of noontime dance concerts more than a decade ago to make dance artists accessible to students on campus. It offers a B.F.A. in Dance, with concentrations in performance and choreography. For more information, call (718) 488-1051.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.