Sundays, Aug 6 - Sept 10, 12-2pm at Chez Bushwick

Intended for advanced to professional movers with experience in contact work and improvisation, but open to all! Classes will include a thorough warm up, game-playing, theatrical exercises, phrasework, and structured jam time. Each session will build on the next, but single drop-ins are welcome. Class will pull on research from the choreographic process of 'Dear Young One' (premiered May 2023), incorporating child-like play, leaning into silly joy, and practicing community care. 

Chez Bushwick can be accessed most easily by the L train at Morgan Ave or Montrose Ave. When you arrive to the building, buzz #11, then walk up stairs to the second floor. Follow the phots of dancers on the wall until you see the studio. There is a bathroom located inside the studio.

Reach out to Uila if you have any questions or need help locating the studio. 

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Uila Marx (they/she) is a nonbinary dancer, choreographer and educator from O’ahu, Hawai’i. Their movement work is informed by a lifelong education in hula and practices of land and body care. Uila attended Mid-Pacific School of the Arts where she studied Graham, Horton, and classical ballet, and later received B.A.s in Dance and Psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University in Harlem, New York.

They have performed works by Okwui Okpokwasili, David Thomson, Mark Morris, David Dorfman, Colleen Thomas, Davalois Fearon, and Neta Pulvermacher, among others. Currently Uila creates, performs, and engages in research with interdisciplinary movement artists in NYC including Edisa Weeks (DELIRIOUS Dances), Will A. Ervin Jr., The Why Collective, and Lucia Gagliardone.

Uila is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands Are for Holding program, which uses dance to have conversations with youth attending New York City public schools about healthy relationships, consent, boundaries, and choice making. As an educator Uila is interested in actualizing safe spaces and queer-forward sex/consent education through dance and contact improvisation. As a dance maker, their work centers tenderness, play, and community care.