KEILA CORDOVA
Keila Cordova is a Philadelphia-based dance-maker, performer and writer. She creates original dance theatre works for her company, 3 Pony Show. Past evening-length dances include: Say Good Morning If It's Night, A Tree When No Moon Shines, KITH, Linear Default, As Pretty Does, Agnes Falling, Gold, Janet 2.0, Mamibaile and Volcano, My Love.
Her works have been performed at numerous festivals, including the Philadelphia Fringe, newMoves Contemporary Dance (Pittsburgh, PA), E-Moves (Harlem Stage), Around the Coyote (Chicago), Dixon Place’s Moving Men (NY), Celebrate Dance (San Diego, CA), HERE Arts Center/Lincoln Center’s American Living Room, Boogie Down Dance (Bronx), D.U.M.B.O Arts (Brooklyn), Sweat Modern Dance (Hoboken, NJ), Toronto Fringe — as well as Judson Church (NY), BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Art & Dance) and Outlet Dance Project at the Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ).
Ms. Cordova has received artistic support from The Esperanza Arts Center, The Director’s Lab West, The Leeway Foundation, Small But Mighty Arts, the Puffin Foundation, Aaron Davis Hall/Harlem Stage and a commission from the Greenwall Foundation and the International Center for Advanced Studies (NYU). She has received artist residency awards from the Constance B. Saltonstall Foundation, The Millay Colony, Norcroft and has been awarded a Story Changers Award (for Outstanding Leadership and for Empowering Women in the Arts in Philadelphia) from the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, as well as an Audre Lorde Fellowship from The Union Institute Centre for Women. She is an alumni of UC, Berkeley (BA) and the New School for Social Research (MFA). She has taught movement workshops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York and Atlanta.