Rhia Jade & "Café Müller" by Pina Bausch

Dancer Rhia Jade discusses the impact of Pina Bausch's "Café Müller." Rhia (they/them, she/her) moves and makes things by and for the body. Rhia is a choreographer, dancer, and performer based between New Orleans and Los Angeles who cultivates a practice at the crossroads of queerness, intersectional feminism, choreography, video, and performance. Rhia’s dance-works have been presented in New Orleans at the Contemporary Arts Center, the Marigny Opera House, Catapult, and Port, and in Los Angeles at REDCAT, Human Resources, Pieter, the Annenberg Beach House and Highways. Rhia has been a Hothouse resident at UCLA as well as a Summer Holiday Resident at Pieter. Rhia performed Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest at the Hammer Museum, and has worked with Maya Taylor, Katherine Helen Fisher, Victoria Marks, Ros Warby, Jmy Kidd, Oguri, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Mecca Vazie Andrews, and Ryuta Iwashita. Rhia holds a BA in World Arts and Cultures/Dance from UCLA.