ABOUT

  • Dava Huesca is a performing artist and choreographer working across Theatre and Dance. She is a Bessie and Obie Award-winning performer, as well as a Chita Rivera Award nominee for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show. In 2025 she was named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”.

    Dava gained widespread recognition for her work in the hit Broadway production CATS: The Jellicle Ball, where she performed as Rumpleteazer and Assistant Dance Captain. Through the production, she performed at the Tony Awards, The View, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and more. Her performance became a defining part of the production’s visual identity, helping bring its vibrant celebration of Black queer joy. Additional performance credits include Imitation of Life at The Shed (Dance Captain), Saturday Church (Dance Captain) , Hermès, Coach, Ogedmi Ude, BodySonnet, Christoph Winkler, Yin Yue, Vim Vigor and more

    As a choreographer, she has created work for Vanessa Williams for the Black Theatre United Gala, I Put a Spell on You benefit concert at Webster Hall, The Corner web series, Whim W’Him, Dance Lab New York, and Yale University’s Summer Drama Cabaret. She has also served as Associate Choreographer for Tanisha Scott’s Bob Marley: Hope Roadworkshop and held associate choreographer roles with collegiate institutions across the United States.

PORTFOLIO

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    • Imitation of Life (2026) | Dance Captain/Swing | The Shed

    • COACH NYFW After Party (2026) | Skeleton Crew | Arturo Lyons

    • Hermes Williamsburg Store Opening (2026) | Dancer & Singer

    • CATS: The Jellicle Ball Broadway (2026) | Rumpleteazer | The Broadhurst Theater

    • Filling The Shell (2026) | Dancer | BodySonnet

    • Xtravaganza Musical (2025) | Mercedes | Center Staging (Developmental workshop)

    • SATURDAY CHURCH (2025) | Dance Captain /Ensemble | New York Theater Workshop

    • The Space In Between (2025) | Dancer | VLA Dance

    • Filling the Shell (2025) | Dancer | BodySonnet

    • CATS (2024) | Rumpleteazer | Perelman Arts Center

    • Saturday Church (Movement Workshop) (2024) | Dancer | New York Theater Workshop

    • Spell #7 (2024) | Dahlia | The Public Theater

    • The Last New Years Eve (2023) | Marla Phelan | McKittrick Hotel

    • Monster Ball (2023) | Marla Phelan | The McKittrick Hotel

    • Cameo (2023) | Ogemdi Ude| Gibney Presents

    • Midsommars Night Party (2023) | Marla Phelan | The McKittrick Hotel

    • An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time (2023) | Jacolby Satterwhite | Lincoln Center

    • Midnight at the McKittrict (2023) | Marla Phelan & Stefanie Batten Bland| The McKittrick Hotel

    • Works and Process Guggenheim (2022) | Yin Yue Dance Company|

    • Moonfest (2022) | Karencici | Barclays Center

    • We’re Going to Mars (2022) | Christoph Wrinkler Company| Sophensaile (Berlin)

    • Telfar | Damani Pompei | Telfar

    • The Oddsey (2021) | Quaba Ernest | Arts on Site

    • Chez Bushwhick AIR Resident (2021)

    • In the Stillness (2021) | LLAB RATS Dance | Art Cake

    • Life After (2020) | LajaMartin | Dance Film

    • Lost Tribe (2020) | LLAB RATS DANCE| Ciclo Dos

    • Plug Walk (2020) | LLAB RATS Dance| Triskelion Arts (2020)

    • Study on Intimacy [a] (2020) | LLAB RATS Dance| Arts on Site STUFFED

    • TenderHeaded (2020) | LLAB Rats Dance | Battery Dance Festival

    • VIM/VIGOR untitled (2020) | VIM/VIGOR| New York City Center

    • Staycee Pearl Dance Project (2018 - 2019)

    • Dissolving Empire Original Cast (2019) | Johanness Weiland | Springboard Danse Montreal

    • Bodies of Water Melt (2019) | Vanessa Goodman| Springboard Danse Montreal

    • Here to Here (2019) | 2nd Best Dance Company | Dance Theater Lab

    • Second II (2018) | Rena Butler | Dance Theater Lab

    • Data Rage (2018) | VIM VIGOR | Springboard Danse Montreal

    • Dafke (2018) | MAZE Dance Company | Springboard Danse Montreal

    • HUMAN HEREOS (2017) | Sidra Bell | Pepsi Co Theater

    • Bric Brac a Baby (2017) | Maxine Doyle | Dock 11

    • Helios Ritual to the Sun (2015) | Martha Graham | Joyce Theater

    • NEW YORK LIVE | Dava Huesca| CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • the 79th Annual Tony Awards | Rumpleteazer/Dancer | CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Rumpleteazer | CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • Good Morning America | Rumpleteazer | CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • The View | Rumpleteazer | CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • CBS Sunday Morning | Dava Huesca | CATS:The Jellicle Ball

    • An Electric Dance to the Music of Time | Dancer | Lincoln Center Film

    • Arte Journal | Dava Huesca

    • Vanessa Williams Work to Do Black Theatre Union Gala (2026)

    • I Put a Spell on You Benefit Concert Webster Hall (2026)

    • SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory Senior Solo (2026)

    • THE CORNER Webseries (2025)

    • HOPE ROAD Bob Marley Workshop *Associate to Tanisha Scott* (2025)

    • University of Minnesota *Associate to Laja Field* (2025)

    • Steps Dance Conservatory (2024)

    • Whim Whim Dance Company (2023)

    • Chez Bushwhick RECESS (2023)

    • Concert Concepts (2023)

    • University of Michigan SUMMIT (2023)

    • Dance Lab New York (2023)

    • Gibney Pro (2023) *Assistant to LajaMartin*

    • Peridance Certificate program, student graduation solo (2022)

    • Barnard Dance (2022) *VIM VIGOR*

    • Yale Summer Drama Cabaret (2022)

    • Gibney Pro (2022) *Assistant to LajaMartin*

    • Chez Bushwhick AIR Resident (2021)

    • Art Cake (2021)

    • Ciclo Dos (2020)

    • Triskelion Arts Center (2020)

    • Arts on Site STUFFED (2020)

    • Battery Dance Festival (2020) *LLAB RATS*

    • SUNY Purchase (2019) & (2021) *LLAB RATS*

    • The CRAFT NYC (2020) *LLAB RATS*

    • New York Times Magazine (2026)

    • CATS: The Jellicle Ball Promo & Marque (2026)

    • The New York Times (2023)

    • TELFAR NYFW (2022)

    • Parade Naked Chase (2022)

    • TELFAR TV 2021

    • Prom Girl (2017)

    • Chita Rivera 2026 Nominee Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Musical

    • BESSIE AWARD 2025 Outstanding Performer (Haus of Telfar)

    • BESSIE AWARD 2025 Outstanding Performer (CATS:The Jellicle Ball)

    • Dance Magazine 2025 “25 to Watch”

    • Obie Award: Best Ensemble in a Musical CATS: The Jellicle Ball (2025)

    • Desire Keras From the Heart Award (2015)

    • Annmarie School of Performing Arts

    • Barnard Dance

    • Broadway Dance Center A.I.M

    • Brickhouse

    • Dance Lab Next Gen

    • Fierce Dance

    • Gibney Dance

    • Gibney Pro

    • Jump Dance Studio

    • Los Angeles Contemporary Dance

    • Mahattanville College

    • MOVE|NYC|

    • Movers Bodega

    • New York University

    • Peridance Capezio Center

    • Steps on Broadway

    • SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance

    • Dance Lab New York (2023)

    • Gallim Moving Women Residency (2021)

    • Chez Bushwhick AIR resident (2020)

    • SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance (2019)

    • Fiorello H. LaGuardia Arts High School (2015)

    • Springboard Danse Montreal (2018 & 2019)

    • Springboard X (2017 & 2023)

    • The Galen Hooks Method Pro (2022)

    • b12 Berlin (2017)

    • Gaga Israel Winter Intensive (2018)

    • Peridance Youth Ensemble (2012-2014)

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