Odessa Mae Uno
Contemporary
Odessa Mae Uno (she/her/hers) is a movement based Filipino American artist currently working in Southern California. With a mission to make dance an accessible art form, she develops and nurtures spaces that encourage movement as therapy, investigation, and celebration. The foundation of all of her work endlessly references to her belief in the importance of community, love, and integrity. As a choreographer, she is driven by curiosity of the body’s physical limitations and is constantly searching for ways to make dance feel limitless for the performer and audience. She received her BFA in Dance from California Institute of the Arts (Calarts) where she studied performance, choreography, and pedagogy. She has most recently performed with DISCO RIOT, Fresh Congress Dance, Maraya Performing Arts, and Jay Carlon. Her choreographic commissions include Malashock Dance, San Diego Dance Theater, Canyon Crest Academy, and San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. She was the 2021 winner San Diego Dance Theaters’s Emerging Choreographers Showcase and Prize.