Lucia Gagliardone (she/her) is a queer, Vermont-born, Brooklyn-based dance artist with movement origins in intergenerational, community-centered dance-making amongst the trees and in the waters. Her work explores themes of memory excavation and ancestry, grief and healing, and play as a facilitator for change. Her choreography is grounded in post-modern dance, with a fascination for quotidian life. Lucia is interested in storytelling and sees creating dance as a process of empathy.
Lucia is learning about the world through practices such as Emergent Improvisation (with Troy Ogilvie and Omar Zubair) and mutual aid with Collective Focus. Lucia facilitates Emergent Improvisation classes at Peridance and Gibney and performs with Emergent Improvisation (most notably at Wave Hill in “Tree (v.)”). She is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands are for Holding program, which uses dance to have conversations with youth about healthy relationships, consent, boundaries, and choice making.
Lucia co-founded slowDANCE, a dance production company with a process-forward mindset. She has premiered twelve original live and film dance works, which have been presented by Northampton School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, The Tank, SMUSH Gallery, GREENSPACE, 28th Street Theater, The Living Room, Bowdoin College, Taffety Punk, The Hopkins Center for the Arts, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Estia Creative Home, and more. She has performed in works by Reggie Wilson with the Fist and Heel Performance Group, Katy Pyle with Ballez, Aretha Aoki, Gwyneth Jones, and as a principal dancer for Flock Dance Troupe. Lucia is the recipient of grant support for the creation of new works from the Vermont Arts Council, the New England Grassroots Fund, Bowdoin College, and the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation.
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