Moriah Evans is an artist working in the expanded field of choreography. Her choreography has been presented by The Kitchen, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SculptureCenter, Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Movement Research at Judson Church, American Realness, New York Live Arts, FD-13, CallT2, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Theatre de l’Usine (Geneva), CDC Atelier de Paris (Paris), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai). Evans has received numerous residencies and awards, including Bessie nomination for Emerging Choreographer (2015) and Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists (2017).
She was Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal 2013-2020. In 2019 she worked as Curatorial Advisor for Tanzkongress and simultaneously was Co-Artistic Director and Editor for the Goethe Institut’s salons project as part of the Tanzkongress. In 2011 she initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography—a collective that explores choreographic systems. She is a curator of the Kitchen's Dance and Process series.
Evans received 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. She lives in New York.
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