Aria Evans

Aria Evans is a queer, Vancouver Island-born, award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans dance, theatre and film. They are currently splitting their time between Toronto and Winnipeg, where they have begun a tenure track Assistant Professor position teaching movement in the Theatre and Film Department at the University of Winnipeg. A 2012 graduate of York University, Aria was the Metcalf Artistic Director Intern at Soulpepper Theatre from 2021-2022 and was co-Artistic Director of hub14 from 2013-2018.

Aria is a certified Intimacy Coordinator who works in both film and theatre. Over the course of Aria’s time as a professional artist, they have had the pleasure of working as a Movement Director, Choreographer and/or Intimacy Professional for a number of Canada’s leading arts organizations, with highlights including the Canadian Opera Company, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Stratford Festival, Coal Mine Theatre and Factory Theatre, to name a few.

As a public speaker, activist and creative leader, Aria draws on their experiences of being multiracial. With a large-scale vision, collaboration is the departure point to the choreographic work that Aria creates under their company POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Advocating for inclusion and the representation of diversity, Aria uses their artistic practice to question the ways we can coexist together.