Mai Lê Hồ is a French-Vietnamese movement artist, cultural strategist, curator, and educator based in New York City. She is the founder and Artistic/Executive Director of LayeRhythm Productions, Inc., a nonprofit organization rooted in street and club dance culture. Since launching LayeRhythm in 2015 – a groundbreaking performance platform layering freestyle dancers with live musicians and vocalists, acclaimed by The New York Times – Mai Lê has produced over 150 editions in NYC and beyond.

Under her leadership, LayeRhythm has been presented at prestigious venues and festivals including Jacob’s Pillow, the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center (via Works & Process), 92NY, SummerStage, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, the PHI Centre (Montreal), USC Kaufman School of Dance, Harris Theater (Chicago), Tap Water Jam (Montreal), NYPL for the Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center, Bridge Street Theater, and more. The platform was also nominated Helen Stambler Neuberger Artist-in-Residence by National Dance Institute (2022–2023).

As an artist, Mai Lê has performed and taught nationally and internationally for over two decades, with past engagements at NDI, USC Kaufman, 92NY, Lincoln Center, Gibney, and others. She was a 2025 Simons Foundation & Gibney Open Interval Resident Artist, a 2024 Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, a 2023 Dancing Futures resident artist at BAAD! through Pepatián, a 2021 virtual artist-in-residence with the Asian American Arts Alliance, and movement curator for Asian Cultural Council’s 2021 East West Fest. In 2014, she toured Europe with pioneering Detroit producer Theo Parrish and his live band.

Mai Lê has won first place in the house dance category of events including Ladies of Hip-Hop (NYC, 2015), Universole (Detroit, 2015), and Step Ya Game Up (NYC, 2013). She has judged competitions such as Sole Open Philadelphia (2024), Footwork Frenzy (2022), House Dance UK (2015), Slick City (Chicago, 2015), and The Blueprint (Houston, 2013).

Mai Lê is a Functional Patterns-certified Human Biomechanics Specialist.

An Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, she continues to consult with institutions on integrating street and club dance cultures into their programming and reimagining artist-centered support systems.