UILA’S CHOREOGRAPHIC STYLE IN 3 WORDS: IMPROV-DRIVEN, COLLABORATIVE, AND PHYSICAL THEATER.
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 with Ka Pā Hula O Ka Lei Lehua 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), The Why Collective, Lucia Gagliardone, and formerly Mari Meade, Caroline Fermin, Noa Weiss, and Cauveri Suresh. Uila is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands Are for Holding program, which uses dance to converse 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 on tenderness, silliness, and community care.
