DAVA HUESCA

ARTISTIC pROGRAMs MANAGER

Dava Huesca is a freelance choreographer and performing artist based in New York City. She holds degrees from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance and Fiorello LaGuardia Arts High School and is a two-time alumni of Springboard Danse Montreal. Her performance career commenced as a company member with Dance Theater Company VIM VIGOR, where she taught, choreographed, and performed for esteemed institutions such as SUNY Purchase and Barnard. Her other performance attainments include works by Yin Yue Dance Company, Telfar TV, Jacolby Satterwhite, Johannes Weiland, Laja Martin, Maxine Doyle, Rena Butler, Marla Phelan, Stephanie Batten Bland, Sidra Bell, Christoph Wrinkler Company, and Martha Graham Dance Company.

Dava's passion for choreography evoked during the COVID-19 Pandemic, prompting her to create opportunities for herself. In 2020, she co-founded LLAB RATS, an interdisciplinary arts collective focusing on art as activism for the benefit of the Black community. Through LLAB RATS, she has performed and choreographed for various venues, including Battery Dance Festival, CPR, Ciclo Dos, Purchase Dance Company, Arts on Site, The Craft NYC, and POP UP NYC.

As a freelance choreographer, she has received commissions from Whim Whim Dance Company, Dance Lab New York, Yale University's Summer Drama Cabaret, Peridance Certificate Program Graduation Solo,, and worked as an associate choreographer with Laja Martin for Gibney Pro. Dava was honored as the first Springboard Danse Montreal nominated recipient of Jonah Bokaer's Arts Foundation AIR Founder's Residency in 2021 and was among the first round of choreographic artists for Gallim's Moving Women residency in 2020.

Dava's contributions to dance education and teaching have been acknowledged through her roles as an adjunct professor at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, MOVE|NYC|, Barnard, Gibney Pro, Peridance, Brickhouse, Broadway Dance Center, and other institutions. She has been recognized for her impact in the dance world, including accolades from Desiree Kera's from the Heart (2015), and mentions in The New York Times and Dance Spirit magazine for her viral dance fashion Instagram page, @issadancelook. In December 2022, Dava assumed the position of Artistic Programs Manager for the arts and social justice organization MOVE|NYC|.