Lucia Gagliardone is a Vermont-born, Brooklyn-based artist and educator with movement origins in intergenerational, community-centered dance-making amongst the trees and in the waters of home. Her work explores memory excavation and ancestry, grief and healing, queer worldviews, and play as a facilitator for change. Lucia is interested in storytelling and dance-making as a process of empathy.

Lucia co-founded slowDANCE with Lou Sydel, a dance production company with a process-forward mindset. She has premiered twelve live and film dance works, presented by Northampton School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, The Tank, The Living Room, Bowdoin College, The Hopkins Center for the Arts, and more. As a freelance artist, she has performed in works by Reggie Wilson//Fist and Heel Performance Group, Katy Pyle//Ballez, Aretha Aoki, and Flock Dance Troupe. Lucia regularly engages with world-building practices such as emergent improvisation (Troy Ogilvie and Omar Zubair) and mutual aid with Collective Focus.