Choreographer and performer luciana achugar describes her work as “a practice of growing a new body, an uncivilized body, a decolonized body, a utopian body,” a body rooted more in pleasure and instinct as sources of wisdom than as a product of technical mastery. Through durational events and environments designed to bring performer and spectator into a more intimate and visceral relationship, achugar is erasing the divide between “process” – what traditionally goes on beforehand in the studio - and “performance.” Her deployment of the naked body, and repetition has been likened to pagan experiences or “new rituals.” She calls her work new theater, another/other theater, utopian theater – in Spanish: OTRO TEATRO.” A CalArts graduate born in Uruguay, now based in New York, luciana achugar is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography and multiple Bessie Awards.