Moriah Evans works on and through forms of dance and performance. Her choreographies navigate utopic/dystopic potentials within choreography/dance/body, often approaching dance as a fleshy, matriarchal form slipping between minimalism-excess.
She initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, a collective apparatus,
to create research processes and practices to investigate participatory performances and systems of choreography in 2011. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal (2013-2020) and Co-Curator of the Kitchen’s Dance and Process series (2016-2023). In 2019 Evans was Curatorial Advisor for Tanzkongress and simultaneously Co-Artistic Director and Editor of Goethe’s Institut’s Tanzsalons project and accompanying online publication.
Evans has been an artist-in-residence at Movement Research, The New Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Issue Project Room, Studio Series at Νew York Live Arts, ImPulsTanz, MoMA/PS1, MANA Contemporary, Onassis AiR. She is a FCA Individual Artist Awardee, ‘22 MacDowell Fellow, ‘22 Guggenheim Fellow, and ‘23-’24 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
Notable works include: Out of and Into: PLOT (Museion, Bolzano Italy, 2023); Remains Persist (Performance Space New York, NY, 2022); REPOSE (Beach Sessions Rockaways, NY, 2021); BASTARDS: We are all Illegitimate Children (NYU Skirball, ΝY, 2019); Configure (The Kitchen, ΝY, 2018); Figuring (SculptureCenter, ΝY, 2018); Be my Muse (Villa Empain, Brussels, 2016; FD13, Minneapolis, 2017; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 2018; Pace Live, NY, 2021); Social Dance 9-12: Encounter (Danspace Project, ΝY, 2015); Social Dance 1-8: Index (ISSUE Project Room, NY, 2015); Another Performance (Danspace Project, ΝY, 2013). Her choreographies have been commissioned throughout Νew York and internationally at Kampnagel (Hamburg); Theatre de l’Usine (Geneva); Villa Empain (Brussels); Atelier de Paris (Paris); and Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai).
She is an adjunct professor at Cooper Union and has been a visiting professor in the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany and teaches dance and choreographic workshops internationally.
Originally from Ohio, Evans received a B.A. in Art History & English from Wellesley College and M.A. in Art History, Theory & Criticism (20thC. Art) from UCSD’s Visual Arts Department.