Choreographer.

Director.

Dancer.

Maya Billig is a Los Angeles-based choreographer, director, and dancer. A cross between fantasy and poignant reality, her work is rooted in building surreal, hybrid worlds through the mediums of dance, film, and photography. She has been supported by the Knight Foundation, Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Light Project, Locust Projects, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Deering Estate, and was a Jacob’s Pillow Ann & Weston Hicks 2021 Choreographic Fellow. She has been honored as a recipient of the Dance Miami Choreographer’s Award and featured in Dance Magazine March 2022 as an “On the Rise” artist. Her films have been screened both nationally and internationally including Sweden, Bosnia, Italy, Cuba, Venezuela, and USA.

Besides receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts and being classically trained in the conservatory program from New World School of the Arts, Maya has trained heavily in contemporary dance, physical theater, and improvisational techniques throughout the US, Europe, Israel, and Australia. She is currently receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Choreographic Inquiry at UCLA. A traveler at heart, she has traversed 31 countries and plans to spend her life exploring how to develop sustainable relationships to our planet and each other. She intends on having her work be an intersection, an inspiration for dialogue, and a refuge.