Lucía Piquero was born in Asturias, Spain, and trained there in Classical Ballet and read for a BSc in Psychology. In 2006, she moved to London where she trained in Contemporary Dance at London Contemporary Dance School and got her MA in Choreography at Middlesex University.
Lucía was an independent dancer in the UK since 2007 performing with several companies as well as doing her own work with Diciembre Dance Group. Her choreographies have been presented internationally and she has been invited to participate in several festivals in the UK, Malta, Italy, and Spain, including a commission by the Galician Choreographic Centre, and residencies in the National Dance Company of Spain, and Le Performance in France. She was also commissioned by ŻfinMalta (Malta’s national dance company), the Malta International Arts Festival, the MCC Dance Showcase (Malta), and Trialogfem (Spain). She has been Lecturer (2012-2022) and Head (2019-2022) of the Dance Studies Department at the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta, and Senior Lecturer at Dance City (Newcastle, UK), and is currently lecturer in performance psychology at Trinity Laban and lecturer at English National Ballet School. She completed her PhD at the University of Roehampton, London, in 2019.
Her main research interest is on embodied emotion and cognition in dance. She has presented in conferences in Hong Kong, UK, USA, Australia, Spain, Portugal and Malta, also directing workshops and practice research projects in several countries, and publishing articles and chapters in diverse platforms as well as her own monograph.
Awards
- Mediterranean Islands Festival, 2019. 1st place with “Coven”.
- MIDCE, 2016. 3rd place with “Waiting for January” in duets category, and 2nd place with “Did the sheep eat the white rose?” in solo category.
- Special mention and a soloist first prize in the World Dance Championship in Croatia (2012).
