Winter Intensive

Faculty

Winter Intensive

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Dava Huesca

WI Faculty

Jamila Glass | Photo by Zack Whitford

Jamila Glass

Artistic Director

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Dava Huesca

WI Faculty

Dava Huesca is a graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance and an alumna of Fiorello LaGuardia Arts High School. She has further honed her skills through her two-time participation at Springboard Danse Montreal. Dava began her career as a company member with Dance Theater Company VIM VIGOR, performing, teaching, and choreographing for prestigious dance institutions like SUNY Purchase and Barnard.

Her repertoire includes works by celebrated artists and companies such as Telfar, Stefanie Batten Bland, Laja Field, Yin Yue Dance Company, Maxine Doyle, Jacolby Satterwhite, Ogemdi Ude, Johannes Weiland, Karencici and others. She has received commissions from Whim W'him Dance Company, Yale University's Summer Drama Cabaret, Battery Dance Festival, STEPS Conservatory, and more. Dava's excellence has been acknowledged through acclaimed residencies, including Jonah Bokaer's Arts Foundation AIR Founder's Residency and Gallims Moving Women Residency.

Dava's love for movement extends to education, teaching at institutions like SUNY Purchase, Barnard, Broadway Dance Center, Gibney Dance and more.

Instagram: @DavaHuesca

Jamila Glass | Photo by Zack Whitford

Jamila Glass

Artistic Director

  • Founding Company Member in 2005
  • Artistic Director in 2021

Filmmaker and Choreographer Jamila Glass is known for creating cinematic journeys of movement, shaping characters, and building worlds that reflect what make us human. In addition to creating work as the Artistic Director of L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (where she joined in 2005 as a founding member), she has choreographed extensively in film and television. Her choreography work includes projects on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, BET, and PRADA and garnered mentions in NY Times, L.A. Times, Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine, and Mashable.  She recently choreographed and co-directed two commercials for Splice, the music industry's highest quality, royalty-free sample library.

Glass began her formal training as a nine-year-old scholarship student at The Discovery Dance Group in Houston, Texas. She continued dancing in her spare time as a vocal music major at the multi-Grammy award-winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Jamila graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Cinema-Television (Film & Video Production) and a Minor in Advertising.

As a performer, she has worked with Ryan Heffington, Galen Hooks, Nina McNeely, Kathryn Burns, David Dorfman, Adam Parson, and Mecca Vazie Andrews.  Other credits include Netflix Original film Mascots from Christopher Guest, American Horror Story, Paul McCartney, Colbie Caillat, Foster the People tour, Mastercard, American Apparel, Samsung, & the NY Times Best Selling photography book Dancers Among Us.

Beyond the stage, Jamila, a director/screenwriter, is currently producing films through her production company The Cutting Room where she has directed 20 critically-acclaimed short dance films, a television pilot, and 2 music videos that have garnered international praise, including film screenings in London, Paris and Lebanon. Her previous work as a freelance editor includes documentary shorts, national radio commercials, and an award-winning independent television network. Her directorial work for LACDC includes and then life was beautiful, INSECTOS: arte y vida (commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain), and SUMMON (featuring the music by Emmy award-winning and Grammy and Oscar-nominated Kris Bowers).  She previously served LACDC's Media Director and Summer/Winter Intensive Director, elevating the company's visibility across continents.

She has taught at Schools: Pace University, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Texas Christian University, Hussian College Los Angeles and has created work for LACDC, Texas Christian University, Cal State Fullerton, University of Illinois Edwardsville, and Co/Motion Creation Intensive (Boston).  

Recent News: Texas Christian University’s (TCU) dance students had such a wonderful experience with Jamila Glass during her Spring 2023 residency that their School of Classical & Contemporary Dance invited her to return in the Fall of 2023 to do another teaching & choreographic residency. She is honored to share the bill for their Fall Concert with world-renowned choreographer Sidra Bell.

Jamila is represented by Movement Talent Agency and is a member of the Television Academy, the Choreographers Guild and SAG-AFTRA.

Watch her teaching reel and check out her class schedule.

*Headshot by Zack Whitford

Antonio Hudnell

Antonio Hudnell

WI Faculty

From the mean streets of Washington, D.C. Antonio Hudnell bloomed like a rose into an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and visual artist.  Originally a ballet boy, Antonio switched sides and combined his tap, ballet, and contemporary skill to become a commercial success.  Antonio is seen on stage alongside the big names: Janet, Bieber, Usher, Chris, Missy, Pharrell -- you name em' he's worked with them.  After years of making his own mark in major commercials, feature films and music videos, Antonio saw an opportunity to assist other creative team members, whether directors or producers. 

Working with the best dance talent in various genres all over the world affords the LA-based choreographer the rare ability to get exactly what's needed from hired talent.  Whether working as a movement coach, creative director or choreographer on set, Antonio delivers on highly technical, creative and astonishing performances.

Instagram: @antoniohudnell 

Credits include: 
Artists: Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Usher, Chris Brown, Ciara, Muni Long, Omarion, Pharrell, Ne-Yo, Justin Bieber 

Film & TV: In the Heights, Step Up, FAME, The Wiz (LIVE), Good Trouble, The Voice, The Oscars, Dancing with the Stars

Brands: NIKE, Samsung, Mastercard, Target, Remy Martin, and more.