Uila Marx

Uila (they/she) is a storyteller through performance, choreography, and education, born and raised on O’ahu, Hawai’i, and based in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn. Uila’s work centers intergenerational tenderness, queer joy, and urgency toward communal healing. They are in current practice with Edisa Weeks (DELIRIOUS Dances), Troy Ogilvie, Omar Zubair, and slowDANCE (Lucia Gagliardone & Lou Sydel), formerly Accent Dance, Mari Meade Dance Collective, and The Why Collective. Uila currently hosts Emergent Improvisation at Gibney Dance and has been on faculty at Peridance, Dancewave, and Mid-Pacific School of the Arts. She is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands are for Holding program, which uses dance to facilitate conversations about healthy relationships with youth across NYC.