Francesca Dominguez is an Argentinian-American, New York City–based movement artist and choreographer, whose work explores desire and longing as sensations through which we can discover something about our own impulse, agency, and ingrained behavioral patterns. Her choreography has been presented at Gibney Dance Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Green Space, Skidmore College’s Dance Theater, and Jamaica Performing Arts Center, and she was commissioned to create a large-scale work for 13 dancers with the Barnard/Columbia Dance Department. She has been recognized as a Jacob’s Pillow Ann and Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellowship Recipient and as a choreographer for Doug Varone’s Devices showcase.
Francesca’s choreographic practice folds back into her teaching. Her Master’s research at Hunter College, Galvanizing Steel: Kinesthetic Empathy and the Pedagogy of Collaboration, received the Shuster Award for outstanding master’s thesis, leading to teaching appointments at institutions such as Juilliard, Barnard/Columbia, Marymount Manhattan, and Hunter College. She also serves as NYC’s lead Countertechnique teacher, traveling nationwide to deliver workshops and intensives that fuse movement, sensation, anatomy, and creation.
Her practice foregrounds human nuance alongside technical virtuosity, inviting audiences to experience not only rigorous movement but the layered, kinesthetically empathetic presence of real people in motion. This approach has led to both evening-length works and intimate, research-driven residencies where performance and inquiry are deeply intertwined.
