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

Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a dance and performance choreographer, producer, and cultural entrepreneur. She has been creating choreography for nearly 20 years. Her transdisciplinary artistic projects focus on the body as raw material, the main object for the projection and transformation of individuals in a shared experience. Rodríguez Lora earned a Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College School of the Arts in New York (CUNY), where she was recognized by the Dance Department with the Choreography Award (2002). She completed a Master’s degree in Performing Arts Management at Columbia College-Chicago. Rodríguez Lora was the executive producer of the award-winning documentary “STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen,” a project that exemplifies her commitment to supporting and producing art that provokes progressive dialogues around race, gender, and sexuality.

Since 2013, she has led her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, a platform that seeks to question and activate the multiplicities of the concept of woman through artistic encounters and exchanges. Rodríguez Lora’s pieces and collaborations have been presented in alternative spaces and international platforms such as: 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 Independence Dom International Performance Festival (Dominican Republic). Her next piece to be presented, “SUSTENTO”, is a video performance in collaboration with the undisciplined artist Macha Colón. This project, which is in the process of being completed, has been 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 developing La Rosario Proyectos, a company whose mission is the economic and creative sustainability of artists and independent live art projects.