Evvie Allison

Evvie Allison is a New York City-based choreographer, dancer, and teacher whose work questions how we make dance.

Her choreography has been presented in New York City by Danspace Project, Center for Performance Research, Gibney, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and PAGEANT, among other venues, and by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She is a 2024 and 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grantee (Choreography Commission), 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grantee, 2019 Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellow, and 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Choreography. Her work has been supported by residencies at Chez Bushwick (NY), the Next Festival of Emerging Artists (NY), Tofte Lake Center (MN), Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (FL), and PLAYA (OR).

Evvie’s choreography for theatre has appeared onstage at American Theatre Company (IL), and she has assisted choreographer Annie-B Parson Off-Broadway. In 2016, her music-video choreography for Brooklyn-based band Arthur Moon was featured on NOWNESS as an editors’ pick.

In addition to making her own dances, Evvie has performed extensively in a broad range of dance projects: As a freelance concert dancer with choreographers including RoseAnne Spradlin, Kim Brandt, and the Merce Cunningham Trust; in music videos choreographed by Kira Alker and Elke Luyten (for David Bowie’s “Blackstar”), Beth Gill, and Celia Rowlson-Hall; and in ballet productions, dancing corps de ballet roles in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker with Alabama Ballet and leading roles in Katy Pyle’s queer ballet company, The Ballez.

Activism and advocacy have been central to her work in the dance field since 2016, when she co-founded the non-hierarchical co-mentorship event FREE ADVICE with colleague Alice MacDonald. The platform, which connected artists in a mutual exchange of information and resources, has been programmed by Movement Research, Spaceworks NYC, and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. In 2018, Evvie began facilitating meetings between the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and freelance dancers to explore the possibility of freelancers gaining union representation. That work led to her founding Dance Artists’ National Collective with colleagues Alex Rodabaugh and David Gonsier. Her dance writing has been published in Dance Magazine, Critical Correspondence and the Movement Research Performance Journal.

Evvie holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Pilates certification from the Kane School at Kinected and continues to study with Clarice Marshall. She teaches Pilates at American Ballet Theatre, where she is on faculty for the ABT Studio Company and the ABT JKO School.

Her CV is available to view here.