Awilda Rodríguez Lora

Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a contemporary Puerto Rican dancer, performance artist, choreographer, and storyteller. Her art focuses on women, sexuality, and self-determination. It also incorporates dialogues of colonial legacies and the identities of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora has presented her work throughout North America, South America, and the Caribbean. The artist cites mainstream media as an influence in her work. She is currently the academic director of the Dance Program at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Santurce, a central zone of San Juan. Scholars and curators such as Sarah G. Sharp, Harmony Bench, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Paloma Martinez-Cruz, and Elizabeth Currans have analyzed her work and interviewed her.