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John Evans
John Evans has been dancing and lighting dance, theater and music since 1980. He received a Masters Degree in Dance from The Ohio State University in 1987, then moved to New York City, where he danced with the Victoria Marks Performance Company for five years. He has also danced in the companies of Colin Conner, Monica Levy, Robin Becker, John Jasperse, and The Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. His choreography has been performed in New York City, regionally and internationally. He has twice been a choreographer and teacher at The Yard. He has had work commissioned by Steele Dance, Thompson & Trammel, James Madison University, University of Maryland at College Park, and Hofstra University. For The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, John has also choreographed productions of A Winters Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Three Penny Opera. He has received grants from the Pittsburgh Dance Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his design and choreography work with Squonk Opera. John directs his own company, John Evans & Dancers, and is co-artistic director of BOB & BOB DANCE a male duet dance company. As a lighting designer and/or technical director/stage manager, John has worked with Merian Soto and Pepon Osorio, Blondell Cummings, Bebe Miller, Susan Marshall, Randy James, Carolyn Dorfman, Mark Taylor, The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, American College Dance Festival, and Mason Gross School of the Arts. John has been a full time faculty member in the Department
of Dance since 1995, where he teaches, performs, designs
and creates new work.
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