Maya Bodiley

Maya (she/her) is a Glasgow based independent dance artist, performer, maker and teacher.

She seeks contexts where merging disciplinary parameters and embracing multiplicity is valued, both in her creative practice and in life.

From Devon, Maya met her physical expressive self through her practical and explorative relationship to her rural environment, later going into more formal training and gaining a BA in Contemporary Dance alongside independent training in various countries across Europe. In 2023 Maya graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance with a Distinction level masters in Dance Performance in affiliation with Scottish Dance Theatre in Dundee and now continues to work for the company professionally.

Maya collaborates with visual artists, musicians and filmmakers, as well as choreographers, alongside her own directive endeavours. She has developed and performed works both for theatres and less conventional performance spaces such as shopping centres, streets, fields and festival stages, galleries and a crumbleming Polish palace, continually seeking to grow this list.

Maya strives for performance art and practice that offers joy, cultivates both togetherness and autonomy and fosters inclusivity. She believes in a holistic approach to creative practice that can equally be imaginatively ambitious, critical, fantastical and sensitively responsive to the human experience. Maya, has zeal to make and do great things alongside others who share these values.