Donna Uchizono is a NYC-based dance artist and Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company (DUC), which has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. Uchizono has been commissioned to create work for notables Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pulitzer Playwright Paula Vogel, theater director Oskar Eustis, MacArthur fellow David Hammons, and neurologist/writer Oliver Sacks. A United States Artist Awardee, Guggenheim Fellow, and “Bessie” recipient, Uchizono has been distinguished by numerous national awards and grants, and many New York State and New York City awards.

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 the 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 Dance USA and serves as a grants panelist for various funding institutions.

In 2011, after decades of critically acclaimed dance works that toured nationally and internationally, Uchizono was identified by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) at Lincoln Center as a master choreographer whose works require preservation. Since 2019, Uchizono has been humbled by the NYPL’s confirmation and recognition of being the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian descent in the history of modern dance to have received cumulative national award recognition and toured an eponymous dance company across the US and internationally. She has been using this odd distinction as an advocate for equal national funding, presentation, and visibility for all Asian choreographers, both Asian and American-born.