Dance Academic Leader
awilda.rodriguez@sagrado.edu
(787) 728-1515, Ext. 5195 (787) 728-1515, Ext. 5195

Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a dance and performance choreographer, producer, and cultural entrepreneur. With nearly 20 years of experience in choreography, her transdisciplinary artistic projects focus on the body as raw material—the primary medium for projecting and transforming individuals through shared experiences. Rodríguez Lora earned a BFA from the Hunter College School of the Arts in New York (CUNY), where she received the Choreography Award from the Dance Department in 2002. She also completed a Master’s in Performing Arts Management at Columbia College-Chicago. Rodríguez Lora served as the executive producer of the award-winning documentary “STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen,” which showcases her dedication to creating and supporting art that fosters progressive dialogues about race, gender, and sexuality.

Since 2013, she has led her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, which aims to explore and engage with the diverse meanings of being a woman through artistic encounters and exchanges. Rodriguez Lora’s works and collaborations have been showcased in alternative spaces and international platforms, including Deformes (Performance Biennial in Chile), CounterCurrent Festival, Performance Mix Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Hidrante, The Fields Project Gallery, La Mama Experimental Theater, and the Festival Internacional de Performance Independence Dom (Dominican Republic). Her next piece, “SUSTENTO,” is a video performance collaborating with the multidisciplinary artist Macha Colón. This project has been made possible thanks to the support of the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative, Northwestern University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Currently, she is managing La Rosario Proyectos, a company dedicated to the economic and creative sustainability of artists and independent living art projects.