ARIA EVANS - CV
Assistant Professor University of Winnipeg, Faculty of Arts, Theatre and Film Department, tenure track (2023 - present)
Board of Directors Young Lungs Dance Exchange (2023 - present)
Intimacy Coordinator Certification Intimacy Professionals Association (2021 - present)
Metcalf Artistic Director Intern Soulpepper Theatre (2021 - 2022)
Advisory Board Member Moonhorse Dance Theatre (2019 - present)
Artistic Director POLITICAL MOVEMENT (2015 - present)
Co-Artistic Director hub14 (2013 - 2018)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance York University (2012)
Awards
2023 Urjo Kareda Residency Award
2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize - Protégé
2021 JAYU Arts for Human Rights Award
2018 Critics' Pick Theatre Award for Outstanding Dance Performance
POLITICAL MOVEMENT Projects
Midline (upcoming 2024) PATHS (2017 live)
I Will Fall (in development) link (2017 live + 2020 live)
Dead Ends (2023 live) RElaps (2016 live + 2021 digital)
For Sale (2022 live) RANKED (2016 live)
heart2heart (2021 digital) Desiccated (2015 live + 2016 live + 2018 live)
In The Abyss (2019 live)
Movement Direction and Choreography
Choreographer Kaeja d’Dance - Resistance (upcoming 2025/2026)
Choreographer Canadian Opera Company - Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White (upcoming 2024)
Associate Director Tarragon Theatre - Three Fingers Back (upcoming 2024)
Movement Facilitator Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire, The Great Migration (2023)
Choreography Consultant Native Earth Performing Arts - Niizh (2023)
Movement Director Stratford Festival: Conservatory -The Birds (2023)
Associate Director Tarragon Theatre - My Sister's Rage (2022)
Assistant Director Soulpepper Theatre - Queen Goneril (2022)
Movement Director Stratford Festival - Every Little Nookie (2022)
Movement Director FabCollab - WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS (2021)
Choreographer Theatre Passe Muraille - Seven Pieces [workshop] by Jenn Forgie (2021)
Choreographer Stratford Festival - Penthesilea [workshop] (2021)
Choreographer Urban Ink - Wolf Cull [workshop] by Cheyenne Scott (2021)
Choreographer Manidoons Collective - White Girls in Moccasins [workshop] by Yolanda Bennell (2019)
Choreographer Theatre New Brunswick - Finding Wolastoq Voice (2019)
Choreographer Stratford Lab Ensemble - Indigenous Body of Work (2019)
Movement Coach Manidoons Collective - Bug (2018)
Choreographer and Co-Director Thinking Rock Community Arts - The Rivers Speak (2017)
Choreography and Direction Article 11 with Humber College - iRISING (2016)
Intimacy Professional
Intimacy Director Stupid Fucking Bird [Live Theatre] University of Winnipeg (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Packing [Film Teaser] Snail Mail Media Inc. (2023)
Intimacy Director The Effect [Live Theatre] Coal Mine Theatre (2023)
Intimacy Director Armadillos [Live Theatre] Factory Theatre (2023)
Intimacy Director Richard II [Live Theatre] Stratford Festival (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Really Happy Someday [Film] J Stevens Cinema (2023)
Intimacy Director Arctic Ocean [Live Theatre] Toronto Metropolitan University (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator We Three Queens [Web Series] OutTV (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Sworn Justice [TV] Black Entertainment Television (2022)
Intimacy Director Queen Goneril [Live Theatre] Soulpepper Theatre (2022)
Intimacy Director Every Little Nookie [Live Theatre] Stratford Festival (2022)
Intimacy Coordinator La Ronde [Web Series] Your Cool Aunt Productions // Peach Emoji Productions (2021 - 2022)
Intimacy Coordinator This Place [Dance Film] Guetcha Guaritcha (2021)
Commissions
Choreographer Dust and Soul Dance - Dead Ends (2023)
Choreographer Museum of Contemporary Art - Exit Strategies (2023)
Choreographer/Director Soulpepper Theatre and the City of Toronto - AWAKENINGS "For Sale" (2022)
Choreographer/Director JOBEL Arts For Earth - TRANSFORMATIONS (2022)
Choreographer Michele Pearson Clarke - Quantum Choir (2021)
Choreographer/Director Canadian Opera Company - Voices of Mountains (2021)
Choreographer Kaeja d'Dance - Kitchen Dances (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Soulpepper Theatre's Queer Youth Cabaret - fluid (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Urban Vessel - Four Rooms (2021)
Choreographer Dusk Dances - RElaps (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Toronto Metropolitan University - CHANGE 2nd Year Dance Project (2020)
Choreographer/Director Public Energy - Bridge Over Troubled Water (2020)
Choreographer/Director Toronto Concert Orchestra - Voice Of A Nation (2017)
Choreographer/Director/Set Designer Ontario Culture Days - Two Row (2017)
Facilitation, Interviews and Public Speaking
Facilitator Paprika Festival - Creative Producers Program (upcoming 2024)
Curator SummerWorks Performance Festival (2023)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 3 (2023)
Guest Facilitator MOCA Toronto - Youth Council: Art and Social Change (2023)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2023)
Invited Guest Generator - Intimacy and Self Care check-in (2022)
Facilitator Ontario Presents - BIPOC Touring Network (2022)
Podcast Host The Dance Current - Currently in Dance: bonus episode (2022)
Panelist Playwrights Guild of Canada - The State of Care (2022)
Facilitator Paprika Festival - Hot Topic (2022)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 2 (2022)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2022)
Panelist Theatre Passe Muraille and Red Dress Productions - Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Stages (2021)
Roundtable ICC - Issues in Art, Curation and Community Care (2021)
Interviewee Buddies in Bad Times - the Youth/Elder's Project ‘Mixed Race’ (2021)
Interviewee Mixed In The Six Podcast - Through Me, My Ancestors Say “Hello” with Aria Evans (2020)
Panelist Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Ontario - Indigeneity and its Representation in the Arts (2020)
Facilitator POLITICAL MOVEMENT - By Us For Us (2020)
Co-Facilitator Cahoots Theatre - MIXTAPE (2020)
Panellist Toronto Dance Community Love-In - Wants&Needs in Uncertain Times (2020)
Interviewee Fall For Dance North - Bathtub Bran (2020)
Panelist Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Working Intersections in Dance and Theatre (2019)
Keynote Speaker Dancer Transition Resource Centre - On The Move (2018)
Guest Contributor Canadian Arts Summit (2017)
Panelist Toronto Alliance of Performing Artists - INDIEX, Interdisciplinary panel (2017)
Performer Credits
Actor Manitoba Opera - Li Keur: Riel's Heart Of The North [Workshop] (2023)
Actor Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire [Workshop] (2023)
Dancer Pounds Per Square Inch - Buoyancy [Film] (2023)
Dancer Precarious - Dead Ends (2023)
Dancer Museum of Contemporary Art - Exit Strategies (2023)
Dancer Matriarchs Uprising - Midline [Work in Progress] (2023)
Dancer Kaeja d'Dance - 31 (TouchX + I am the Child of…) (2022)
Dancer Canadian Opera Company - Voices of Mountains [Film] (2021)
Dancer Kaeja d'Dance - Kitchen Dances [Film] (2021)
Dancer FabCollab - WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS (2021)
Dancer/Actor Soulpepper Theatre's Queer Youth Cabaret - fluid [Film] (2021)
Dancer Jamii - National Indigenous Peoples Day (2021)
Dancer Jamii - Giizhig (2021)
Actor AWAKENINGS - A Portrait In Red [Film] (2020)
Dancer Toronto Pride - IndigiQUEER, BLOOM, Catalyst [Film] (2020)
Dancer National Arts Centre - Bonfire Sonata [Live Stream] (2020)
Dancer Indigenous Fashion Week (2020)
Dancer Peggy Baker Dance Projects – her body as words [Film] (2020)
Dancer Kaeja d’Dance - Lifetime Achievements Awards Performance (2020)
Actor Stratford Festival and The Banff Centre - Pawâkan Macbeth (2020)
Actor Paradigm Productions - Four Sisters (2019)
Dancer Tapestry Opera - Shanawdithit (2019)
Dancer Lara Kramer - Miijin Ki (2018)
Actor Natalie Sappier - MAW (2018)
Dancer Frog In Hand - The Fall (2018)
Dancer Luminato Festival - La Grand Continental (2018)
Interpreter Prairie Theatre Exchange and Theatre New Brunswick - Finding Wolastoq Voice (2017, 2018, 2019 tour)
Dancer Soulpepper - Guswenta Gathering (2017)
Dancer Signal Theatre - Bearing (2017)
Dancer wind in the leaves collective - Everything is Everything (2017, 2020)
Dancer Nightwood Theatre - FEMPOCALYPSE (2017)
Dancer Us Arts Collective - A Venue Warming (2016)
Dancer Sarain Fox - Indspire Awards Opening (2016)
Interpreter Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance - Intertribal Gathering (2015)
Dancer Penny Couchie - When Will You Rage? (2015)
Dancer Sharon Harvey - Solo/SoulsDeep (2015)
Interpreter Expect Theatre - Beats and Intentions (2014)
Dancer Peggy Baker Dance Projects - Light and Shadow (2014)
Interpreter Kaha:wi Dance Theatre - Medicine Bear (2013, 2015, 2016 tour)
Dancer Julia Sasso Dances - SloE (2012)
Published Works
Keep On Calling - The Dance Current (2021)
Slide Show - SummerWorks issue, Canadian Theatre Review (2021)
a consent-based choreographic score for two bodies - 2021 Rhubarb Festival performative publication, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (2021)
A Calling In - Provocations, The Dance Current (2020)
Photo Collection - Articulating Artistic Research Vol. 172, Canadian Theatre Review (2017)
Dance Film
Guelph Dance Festival Dance Film Workshop Series (2021-2023)
The School of Toronto Dance Theatre Dance Film Creative Project (2021)
University of Toronto Dance Film Workshop (2021)
Toronto Metropolitan University Dance Film Workshop Series and Creative Project (2020)
SummerWorks Performance Festival Dance Film Workshop (2020)
Toronto District School Board Dance Film Workshop Series and Creative Projects (2017)
Toronto Metropolitan University Guest Lecturer (2016 - 2019)
Kaeja d’Dance Dance Various Dance Film Creative Projects (2013 - 2019)
Board of Directors Young Lungs Dance Exchange (2023 - present)
Intimacy Coordinator Certification Intimacy Professionals Association (2021 - present)
Metcalf Artistic Director Intern Soulpepper Theatre (2021 - 2022)
Advisory Board Member Moonhorse Dance Theatre (2019 - present)
Artistic Director POLITICAL MOVEMENT (2015 - present)
Co-Artistic Director hub14 (2013 - 2018)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance York University (2012)
Awards
2023 Urjo Kareda Residency Award
2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize - Protégé
2021 JAYU Arts for Human Rights Award
2018 Critics' Pick Theatre Award for Outstanding Dance Performance
POLITICAL MOVEMENT Projects
Midline (upcoming 2024) PATHS (2017 live)
I Will Fall (in development) link (2017 live + 2020 live)
Dead Ends (2023 live) RElaps (2016 live + 2021 digital)
For Sale (2022 live) RANKED (2016 live)
heart2heart (2021 digital) Desiccated (2015 live + 2016 live + 2018 live)
In The Abyss (2019 live)
Movement Direction and Choreography
Choreographer Kaeja d’Dance - Resistance (upcoming 2025/2026)
Choreographer Canadian Opera Company - Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White (upcoming 2024)
Associate Director Tarragon Theatre - Three Fingers Back (upcoming 2024)
Movement Facilitator Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire, The Great Migration (2023)
Choreography Consultant Native Earth Performing Arts - Niizh (2023)
Movement Director Stratford Festival: Conservatory -The Birds (2023)
Associate Director Tarragon Theatre - My Sister's Rage (2022)
Assistant Director Soulpepper Theatre - Queen Goneril (2022)
Movement Director Stratford Festival - Every Little Nookie (2022)
Movement Director FabCollab - WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS (2021)
Choreographer Theatre Passe Muraille - Seven Pieces [workshop] by Jenn Forgie (2021)
Choreographer Stratford Festival - Penthesilea [workshop] (2021)
Choreographer Urban Ink - Wolf Cull [workshop] by Cheyenne Scott (2021)
Choreographer Manidoons Collective - White Girls in Moccasins [workshop] by Yolanda Bennell (2019)
Choreographer Theatre New Brunswick - Finding Wolastoq Voice (2019)
Choreographer Stratford Lab Ensemble - Indigenous Body of Work (2019)
Movement Coach Manidoons Collective - Bug (2018)
Choreographer and Co-Director Thinking Rock Community Arts - The Rivers Speak (2017)
Choreography and Direction Article 11 with Humber College - iRISING (2016)
Intimacy Professional
Intimacy Director Stupid Fucking Bird [Live Theatre] University of Winnipeg (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Packing [Film Teaser] Snail Mail Media Inc. (2023)
Intimacy Director The Effect [Live Theatre] Coal Mine Theatre (2023)
Intimacy Director Armadillos [Live Theatre] Factory Theatre (2023)
Intimacy Director Richard II [Live Theatre] Stratford Festival (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Really Happy Someday [Film] J Stevens Cinema (2023)
Intimacy Director Arctic Ocean [Live Theatre] Toronto Metropolitan University (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator We Three Queens [Web Series] OutTV (2023)
Intimacy Coordinator Sworn Justice [TV] Black Entertainment Television (2022)
Intimacy Director Queen Goneril [Live Theatre] Soulpepper Theatre (2022)
Intimacy Director Every Little Nookie [Live Theatre] Stratford Festival (2022)
Intimacy Coordinator La Ronde [Web Series] Your Cool Aunt Productions // Peach Emoji Productions (2021 - 2022)
Intimacy Coordinator This Place [Dance Film] Guetcha Guaritcha (2021)
Commissions
Choreographer Dust and Soul Dance - Dead Ends (2023)
Choreographer Museum of Contemporary Art - Exit Strategies (2023)
Choreographer/Director Soulpepper Theatre and the City of Toronto - AWAKENINGS "For Sale" (2022)
Choreographer/Director JOBEL Arts For Earth - TRANSFORMATIONS (2022)
Choreographer Michele Pearson Clarke - Quantum Choir (2021)
Choreographer/Director Canadian Opera Company - Voices of Mountains (2021)
Choreographer Kaeja d'Dance - Kitchen Dances (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Soulpepper Theatre's Queer Youth Cabaret - fluid (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Urban Vessel - Four Rooms (2021)
Choreographer Dusk Dances - RElaps (2021)
Choreographer/Film Maker Toronto Metropolitan University - CHANGE 2nd Year Dance Project (2020)
Choreographer/Director Public Energy - Bridge Over Troubled Water (2020)
Choreographer/Director Toronto Concert Orchestra - Voice Of A Nation (2017)
Choreographer/Director/Set Designer Ontario Culture Days - Two Row (2017)
Facilitation, Interviews and Public Speaking
Facilitator Paprika Festival - Creative Producers Program (upcoming 2024)
Curator SummerWorks Performance Festival (2023)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 3 (2023)
Guest Facilitator MOCA Toronto - Youth Council: Art and Social Change (2023)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2023)
Invited Guest Generator - Intimacy and Self Care check-in (2022)
Facilitator Ontario Presents - BIPOC Touring Network (2022)
Podcast Host The Dance Current - Currently in Dance: bonus episode (2022)
Panelist Playwrights Guild of Canada - The State of Care (2022)
Facilitator Paprika Festival - Hot Topic (2022)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 2 (2022)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2022)
Panelist Theatre Passe Muraille and Red Dress Productions - Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Stages (2021)
Roundtable ICC - Issues in Art, Curation and Community Care (2021)
Interviewee Buddies in Bad Times - the Youth/Elder's Project ‘Mixed Race’ (2021)
Interviewee Mixed In The Six Podcast - Through Me, My Ancestors Say “Hello” with Aria Evans (2020)
Panelist Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Ontario - Indigeneity and its Representation in the Arts (2020)
Facilitator POLITICAL MOVEMENT - By Us For Us (2020)
Co-Facilitator Cahoots Theatre - MIXTAPE (2020)
Panellist Toronto Dance Community Love-In - Wants&Needs in Uncertain Times (2020)
Interviewee Fall For Dance North - Bathtub Bran (2020)
Panelist Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Working Intersections in Dance and Theatre (2019)
Keynote Speaker Dancer Transition Resource Centre - On The Move (2018)
Guest Contributor Canadian Arts Summit (2017)
Panelist Toronto Alliance of Performing Artists - INDIEX, Interdisciplinary panel (2017)
Performer Credits
Actor Manitoba Opera - Li Keur: Riel's Heart Of The North [Workshop] (2023)
Actor Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire [Workshop] (2023)
Dancer Pounds Per Square Inch - Buoyancy [Film] (2023)
Dancer Precarious - Dead Ends (2023)
Dancer Museum of Contemporary Art - Exit Strategies (2023)
Dancer Matriarchs Uprising - Midline [Work in Progress] (2023)
Dancer Kaeja d'Dance - 31 (TouchX + I am the Child of…) (2022)
Dancer Canadian Opera Company - Voices of Mountains [Film] (2021)
Dancer Kaeja d'Dance - Kitchen Dances [Film] (2021)
Dancer FabCollab - WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS (2021)
Dancer/Actor Soulpepper Theatre's Queer Youth Cabaret - fluid [Film] (2021)
Dancer Jamii - National Indigenous Peoples Day (2021)
Dancer Jamii - Giizhig (2021)
Actor AWAKENINGS - A Portrait In Red [Film] (2020)
Dancer Toronto Pride - IndigiQUEER, BLOOM, Catalyst [Film] (2020)
Dancer National Arts Centre - Bonfire Sonata [Live Stream] (2020)
Dancer Indigenous Fashion Week (2020)
Dancer Peggy Baker Dance Projects – her body as words [Film] (2020)
Dancer Kaeja d’Dance - Lifetime Achievements Awards Performance (2020)
Actor Stratford Festival and The Banff Centre - Pawâkan Macbeth (2020)
Actor Paradigm Productions - Four Sisters (2019)
Dancer Tapestry Opera - Shanawdithit (2019)
Dancer Lara Kramer - Miijin Ki (2018)
Actor Natalie Sappier - MAW (2018)
Dancer Frog In Hand - The Fall (2018)
Dancer Luminato Festival - La Grand Continental (2018)
Interpreter Prairie Theatre Exchange and Theatre New Brunswick - Finding Wolastoq Voice (2017, 2018, 2019 tour)
Dancer Soulpepper - Guswenta Gathering (2017)
Dancer Signal Theatre - Bearing (2017)
Dancer wind in the leaves collective - Everything is Everything (2017, 2020)
Dancer Nightwood Theatre - FEMPOCALYPSE (2017)
Dancer Us Arts Collective - A Venue Warming (2016)
Dancer Sarain Fox - Indspire Awards Opening (2016)
Interpreter Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance - Intertribal Gathering (2015)
Dancer Penny Couchie - When Will You Rage? (2015)
Dancer Sharon Harvey - Solo/SoulsDeep (2015)
Interpreter Expect Theatre - Beats and Intentions (2014)
Dancer Peggy Baker Dance Projects - Light and Shadow (2014)
Interpreter Kaha:wi Dance Theatre - Medicine Bear (2013, 2015, 2016 tour)
Dancer Julia Sasso Dances - SloE (2012)
Published Works
Keep On Calling - The Dance Current (2021)
Slide Show - SummerWorks issue, Canadian Theatre Review (2021)
a consent-based choreographic score for two bodies - 2021 Rhubarb Festival performative publication, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (2021)
A Calling In - Provocations, The Dance Current (2020)
Photo Collection - Articulating Artistic Research Vol. 172, Canadian Theatre Review (2017)
Dance Film
Guelph Dance Festival Dance Film Workshop Series (2021-2023)
The School of Toronto Dance Theatre Dance Film Creative Project (2021)
University of Toronto Dance Film Workshop (2021)
Toronto Metropolitan University Dance Film Workshop Series and Creative Project (2020)
SummerWorks Performance Festival Dance Film Workshop (2020)
Toronto District School Board Dance Film Workshop Series and Creative Projects (2017)
Toronto Metropolitan University Guest Lecturer (2016 - 2019)
Kaeja d’Dance Dance Various Dance Film Creative Projects (2013 - 2019)
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