Luce Mahler

Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC.

Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore!

She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be.