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 has also contributed choreography for regional theatre productions and worked as an Assistant Choreographer Off-Broadway, and her music-video choreography has been featured on NOWNESS as an editors’ pick.
As a performer, Evvie has worked on a broad range of dance projects with choreographers including RoseAnne Spradlin, Kim Brandt, and Merce Cunningham (courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust); in music videos choreographed by Kira Alker and Elke Luyten (for David Bowie), Beth Gill, and Celia Rowlson-Hall; and in ballet productions with Alabama Ballet and The Ballez, where she danced leading roles.
Activism and advocacy are central to her work. She is a co-founder of FREE ADVICE, a co-mentorship platform that connected artists in a mutual exchange of information and resources between 2016-2018. She later facilitated 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 the advocacy organization 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 privately and at American Ballet Theatre, where she is on faculty for the ABT Studio Company and the ABT JKO School.