Conoce a les artistas: Awilda Rodríguez-Lora

“El Coloquio del Otro Lao' es un encuentro importante para la celebración y cuestionamiento de nuestras experiencias como artistas, académicos pero sobre todo como activistas que entendemos que la presencia y la complicidad de nuestros cuerpes son una oportunidad para realizar el cambio que imaginamos para un mundo y país más justo para todes.”

¿Quién es?

Awilda Rodríguez-Lora is a performance choreographer. Her work challenges misconceptions about womanhood through the exploration of sexuality, empowerment, and self-determination. These concepts are explored through the use of movement, sound, and video as well as through a methodology she calls the “economy of living”--which can either potentiate or subtract from her body’s “value” in the contemporary art market. Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working in-between North and South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Rodríguez-Lora's performances traverse multiple geographic histories and realities. In this way, her work promotes progressive dialogues regarding hemispheric colonial legacies, and the unstable categories of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora has been an invited guest artist at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD), New York University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Dance Center, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), among others. Her solo work has been recently featured at DEFORMES Performance Biennale (Chile), Posta Sur Performance Encounter (Chile), Independence Dom (Dominican Republic) and the Miami International Performance Art Festival (USA). She is currently Fellow Artist of the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative and is supported by Northwestern University and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Rodríguez Lora is currently a host/coordinator at La Rosario in Santurce, where she is creating, researching, and producing her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, while developing new strategies for the sustainability of live arts in Puerto Rico. After more than ten years of work as a fully independent artist, she is committed to further studying how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative forms of life rooted in communality, creativity, and social justice.