Dava Huesca (Day-Va Wesca) is a Performing Artist, Choreographer, & Educator raised and based in New York City!

ABOUT

  • Dava Huesca is a performing artist and choreographer working across concert dance and musical theater. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2025 and is an Bessie- and Obie Award–winning performer.

    Huesca gained widespread recognition for her work in the hit Off-Broadway revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, where she starred as Rumpleteazer and later served as Assistant Dance Captain. Her performance became a defining face of the production’s internationally viral “Cat Walk,” helping propel the show into global visibility.

    Her performance career spans theater and contemporary dance, with credits including Saturday Church, Ogedmi Ude & Company, Body Sonnet, Christoph Winkler Company (Germany), Yin Yue Dance Company, and VIM VIGOR, among others. As a choreographer, Huesca has received commissions from The Corner web series, Whim W’Him, Dance Lab New York, and Yale University’s Summer Drama Cabaret. She has served as Associate Choreographer for Tanisha Scott’s Bob Marley: Hope Road workshop and held associate choreographer roles with collegiate institutions across the United States. She was also the inaugural Springboard Danse Montréal nominee for the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation’s AIR Founder’s Residency and a resident artist with Gallim’s Moving Women program.

    Deeply committed to dance education, Huesca has served on faculty at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, Barnard College, Gibney Pro, Broadway Dance Center, and additional institutions nationwide.

PORTFOLIO

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    • 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

    • 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*

    • 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)

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

    • TELFAR NYFW (2022)

    • Parade Naked Chase (2022)

    • TELFAR TV 2021

    • Prom Girl (2017)

    • 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)

    • 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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