Resident

Maya Billig

About

Maya Billig

Resident:

Maya Billig

Born:

Miami, FL

Based:

Miami, FL

Discipline:

Project:

A LOT: rehearsals at The Light Box parking lot

Residency:

Period:

2021

Maya Billig was born and raised in Miami, Fl, where she currently resides. Through research-based practices, she develops choreographic works for film, stage, and site-specific performances.

As a Here & Now 2020 artist, her latest work ‘Brink’ was presented by the Miami Light Project in December of 2020. Her next piece “A Lot” is in development with support from the Knight Foundation in order to reimagine how we can safely experience the performing arts amidst Covid-19. She is also supported by the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs as a recipient of the Dance Miami Choreographers Program award. She is currently in her second year of artist residency at the Deering Estate in South Florida.

Biography

Her recent live works have been presented at the historical Kampong in Coconut Grove, Fountainhead Studios, and Art Basel Miami where she collaborates with visual artists to create multi-disciplinary experiences. Her dance films have been selected by Crosscuts (Sweden), Prisma Independent Film Awards (Rome), American Dance Festival Movies by Movers, and Screendance Miami.

Besides receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New World School of the Arts, Maya has also trained heavily in contemporary dance, physical theater, and improvisational techniques throughout Europe, Israel, and Australia, using her travels as a primary artistic influence.

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Artist in Residence

Miami Light Project supports the creative development and artistic process of emerging and mid-career artists in the fields of dance, theater, film and photography by providing resources and year-round space. During their residency, artists research, experiment, collaborate, facilitate dialogues, conduct master classes and develop work-in-progress showings with local artists and community at large.

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Performance Series

April 12, 2024
- April 13, 2024

8:00 pm

Fundraising

June 1, 2024

7:00 pm

Here & Now

September 19, 2024
- September 21, 2024

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Elizabeth Boone

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Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.