Raised in San Francisco, Chuck Wilt is a choreographer, educator, drag artist known as Fuchsia, and the Artistic Director/Choreographer of UNA Productions. They are genderqueer, second generation Queer, and a proud pup parent.
In 2022, Chuck was a Resident Choreographer for the 20th Anniversary of the Springboard Danse Montreal Program and was the recipient of Springboard/Gibney’s inaugural ILLUME Award. Chuck was a selected CUNY Dance Initiative Artist in Residence at Brooklyn College (2019–2020) and a selected Artist in residence at Berkeley Ballet Theater (2020). In 2019, Wilt was the recipient of the Rainin Opportunity Fund—premiering COLORING at and in association with the ODC Theater. In 2018, Chuck was a selected Artist in Residence of Dance Initiative (CO) and an Artist in Residence at the 92nd St. Y’s Harkness Dance Center (2018–2019). In 2017, Chuck was a selected choreographic fellow for the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab made possible by generous support from the Ford Foundation.
Chuck has created new work for Ormao Dance Company, LITVAK Dance Company, Springboard Danse Montreal, KSU Dance, Post:ballet with the Kronos Quartet, SALT Pre Professional Company, the University of Maryland, Ailey Fordham BFA Program, Mason Gross Rutgers University, Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, Berkeley Ballet Theater/Post:ballet/SF Girls Chorus, NYU Tisch Dance, and the ODC Youth Company. They have set solo repertory at Ailey Fordham, SUNY Purchase, and LINES. Chuck has choreographed and produced two music videos for band Figs Vision, one of which is an official selection for the 40 North Dance Film Festival. They have also choreographed and produced ARIEL, a dance film that was an official selection for the Festival Of Recorded Movement in Vancouver.
TChuck is a faculty member with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. They have taught improvisation and repertory at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado College, University of Maryland, Alvin Ailey Fordham, and NYU Tisch Dance BFA Programs. They have also taught technique and improvisation and set repertory for the New Dialect Summer Intensive, NYU Tisch Summer High School Program for two years as well as Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Programs. With UNA company members, Wilt has taught at the LINES Training Program, Velocity Dance Center, Gibney Dance Center, Lowell High School, ODC Dance Commons, SF Arts Institute, LAB Sessions/IATI Studios, and Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts. Additionally, the company has engaged in outreach in NYC including lec-dems and workshops with Williamsburg Charter, Brooklyn International, Beacon High Schools, and the Professional Performing Arts School and in SF at Lowell High School. Wilt is also a certified GYROTONIC® teacher.
Chuck graduated from NYU Tisch and has performed for and assisted international choreographers.
Photography: Courtesy of UNA Productions