Claudia Hilda (b.1995, Havana) is a Cuban New York-based award-winning contemporary dancer and choreographer. She pursues to subtlety interweave an expanded multidisciplinary practice combining performance, video art, and writing, to create art that is sensitive, reflective, and widely aware of its contemporary times. Her art claims freedom, beauty, receptiveness, innovation, and joy, yet is also an expression of combat and resistance as the gestural and visual articulation of the elsewhere communities’ languages, and fights

From 2013 to 2022 Claudia Hilda worked as principal dancer for the Cuban National Company of Contemporary Dance. During this time she collaborated with cutting edge international choreographers, and performed in the principal theaters across Europe and America. As she recognize Performing Art as a research entity, she has actively intertwined two worlds; the professional world, and the Academia. In 2020-2022 she was recipient of the Chevening and Leverhulme Art scholarships in London where she graduated with the highest achievement prize from her Master’s studies in Art and choreography.

As part of her collaborative projects, In 2022 she collaborated alongside English composer Edward Jenssen and Theater director Joseph W. Alford, in the creation of “Syllable," an experimental opera premiered in London. In 2020 she played the starring role in “Steps out of the blue," an art film that was part of the official selection of Cannes Films Festival within the category of short films. In 2019 she collaborated with Grammy-winner composer and producer Andres Levin, in the creation of a dance piece titled “3WM” which received a choreography award by Cuban institution Fábrica de Arte Cubano.

Claudia Hilda’s practice enriches itself from the existence of mixtures in varied societies, and the increasingly heterogeneous thinking that is part of contemporary social life. Inspired by Afro-Cuban rhythms and its sensuality, cultural differences in body language and bodies as space of resistance and empowerment, Claudia Hilda approaches art as an exercise that celebrates consciousness and intuition around the body, the mind, and the society.