Portfolio of Experience
A Facilitator of Authentic Exchange
Lucía Duque works with the histories people carry into a room: the gestures learned at home, the rhythms of a place, the ways a body has been taught to occupy space. As a movement director, choreographer, performer, and educator, they are interested in how that experience becomes material for performance. Their approach to collaboration gives artists and participants room to contribute the knowledge they bring, alongside the techniques they are learning.
Lucía studied dramatic arts at Universidad Central with Teatro Libre before earning an MFA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in the United Kingdom. Mentorship with Juan Pablo Gonzáles and the Interdisciplinary Dance and Theater Creation Laboratory helped establish the exchange of ideas and experience as a foundation of their creative process. Their interests in somatics, gender, sexuality, and decolonial studies continue to inform how they understand the body and its possibilities for expression.
While living in the United Kingdom, Lucía joined the Colombian folkloric dance group Somos Chibchas. With fellow artists, they wrote, directed, and performed in Buscando a Marino, a dance theatre production supported by the Truth Commission and presented in London and Edinburgh. The project also opened collaborations with visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
After moving to the United States in 2021, Lucía worked as an acting professor, movement director, and choreographer at the University of Cincinnati’s CCM. Their collaborations with dance collective Pones have included choreography presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Contemporary Arts Center. Among these works is Knowing Sunrise, developed with poet Camille Jones, which examines environmental degradation and inequality. Their writing and performance also come together in Good… Girl?, a solo dance theatre piece presented at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
Lucía’s work for the camera includes movement direction for Victoria Lekson’s Circles and Pablo Barriga’s Ven Pa’ Acá, and a performance in JJ & The Mood’s Gonna Sleep Good Tonight. They welcome further collaborations in film, fashion, editorial work, and live events, bringing their understanding of movement into new relationships with image, music, clothing, and space.
Teaching carries these interests into another kind of shared environment. Lucía has designed school dance curricula connecting movement with history, geography, and culture, including a bilingual program focused on Latin American dance at Roberts Academy. In 2026, they developed and directed the Free Community Dance and Movement Lab, hosted at CCM and Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Their teaching treats each participant’s experience as part of what the group has to learn.
Make room for movement.
Bring Lucía into your next production, presentation, or gathering. They can help develop how performers move through a scene, shape the physical presence of a fashion presentation, create choreography for an event, or lead a group in discovering its own possibilities for movement. Share what you are making, who is involved, and what you would like to explore together.
Experience & Knowledge
Onstage, a gesture lives within the whole scene; on camera, it can become the scene’s focus. In a fashion presentation, pace and posture can shape how a garment is encountered. Lucía brings movement direction into these relationships between a performer, a creative idea, and the people watching.
Their credits include The Light Chasers, presented by Know Theatre and the University of Cincinnati’s CCM, alongside movement direction for Victoria Lekson’s Circles and Pablo Barriga’s Ven Pa’ Acá. These projects connect their theatrical experience with the demands of movement made for the camera.
Project Focus: The Light Chasers
Lucía contributed movement direction to The Light Chasers, a collaboration between Know Theatre and CCM. Their contribution can be framed around the physical relationships that help a production hold together: how performers share a space, how an ensemble moves as a group, and how individual choices contribute to the larger dramatic world.
Lucía’s choreography has been presented in theatres, museums, festivals, and community gatherings. They welcome commissions for these settings, alongside fashion presentations, live music, brand events, and other projects that give movement a central role.
Project Focus: Knowing Sunrise
Developed with poet Camille Jones, Knowing Sunrise examines environmental degradation and its unequal effects on communities. Through movement, these concerns become questions of the body: what it carries, what supports it, and how people respond when the conditions around them become uncertain.† The work has been presented at the Midwest Sustainability Summit and Philanthropy Forward ’24.
The proposed creative thread is the relationship between individual vulnerability and collective responsibility, connecting the intimate scale of a body with a larger social and environmental question.
Other Selected Work:
Falling in Grace was choreographed for Eunoia at the Contemporary Arts Center. Lucía’s work with Pones also includes I Was Here, created for the Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s 30th anniversary, and choreography presented through the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Art After Dark program.
In Lucía’s dance theatre work, the body has a part in the telling. Movement and text share the performance, allowing physical action to develop a character, sustain an image, or carry a relationship beyond what is spoken.
Project Focus: Buscando a Marino
Created with fellow members of Colombian folkloric dance group Somos Chibchas, Buscando a Marino brought Lucía’s work in movement and theatre into a shared process of writing, directing, and performance. Supported by the Truth Commission, the production was presented in London and Edinburgh.
The project offers a way to understand tradition as something carried and interpreted by living bodies. Its collaborative framing connects cultural knowledge with the creation of a new performance, allowing the experience of the artists to become part of the work’s language.†
Project Focus: Good… Girl?
Presented at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Good… Girl? brings Lucía’s writing and performance into a solo dance theatre piece. The format places the relationship between text and movement within a single performer, concentrating the work’s dramatic and physical choices in one body.
Dance is the foundation of Lucía’s training and continues to inform how they approach acting, writing, and performance. They studied dramatic arts at Universidad Central with Teatro Libre and later taught Acting at the University of Cincinnati’s CCM.
Their performance experience includes solo and collaborative dance theatre, including Good… Girl? and Buscando a Marino. They bring to character work an interest in how a person becomes recognizable through physical choices: the space they claim, the habits they repeat, and the ways they respond to others.
Lucía’s dance experience includes work with Colombian folkloric dance group Somos Chibchas, original dance theatre, and performance for the camera. Their interest in movement includes the cultural knowledge it carries and the choices a dancer makes in interpreting a work.
Selected performances include Buscando a Marino, Good… Girl?, and JJ & The Mood’s music video Gonna Sleep Good Tonight. Lucía welcomes further collaborations in live performance, music videos, fashion and editorial projects, and work developed with visual artists.
Lucía writes with performance in mind: the person speaking, the action unfolding, and the meanings a body can bring to a line. Their writing draws on their experience as an actor and movement practitioner, connecting the possibilities of a text with the people who will inhabit it.
Their work includes Good… Girl?, a solo dance theatre piece presented at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and Buscando a Marino, written with fellow artists from Somos Chibchas. They welcome collaborations in original theatre and interdisciplinary performance, particularly where writing and movement can develop together.
Lucía leads movement experiences for performers, students, and community groups, including people with no formal dance training. Their teaching invites participants to become more attentive to how they move and more confident in making their own choices.
Workshops can be developed for schools, universities, arts organizations, community spaces, and creative teams. The focus can include movement for performance, collaborative creation, dance in its cultural context, or an introduction to movement as a form of expression.
A session can begin with something familiar: a walk, an everyday gesture, a response to music. Through guided exploration, participants try variations, notice what changes, and discover how their choices relate to those of others. These simple starting points create material for shared movement and more deliberate expression.†
Project Focus: Free Community Dance and Movement Lab
In 2026, Lucía developed and directed the Free Community Dance and Movement Lab, hosted at the University of Cincinnati’s CCM and Clifton Cultural Arts Center. The lab brought their teaching into a community setting, recognizing the embodied knowledge each participant contributes regardless of experience.
Its proposed teaching frame centers on participation and creative autonomy: offering people ways to begin, then giving them room to make decisions and contribute to the group’s exploration.†
Give the story a body.
Lucía Duque is a movement director, choreographer, performer, and educator working across live performance, film, fashion, and community settings. They attend to the details through which a body communicates: the weight of a step, a hesitation, the distance one person keeps from another. Working with artists, creative teams, and organizations, they develop movement that gives an idea a physical form and a performance its particular character.
