Aria Evans

Aria (they/she/he) is a queer, award winning interdisciplinary artist who’s practice spans dance, theatre and film. As a professor, public speaker, activist and creative leader, Aria draws on their experiences of being multiracial. Aria is a certified Intimacy Coordinator, and with a large-scale vision, collaboration is the departure point to the choreographic work that Aria creates under their dance theatre company, POLITICAL MOVEMENT.

Aria has worked as a Movement Director and/or Choreographer for a number of leading arts organizations with highlights including the Canadian Opera Company (Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White), Tarragon Theatre (3 Fingers Back), Soulpepper Theatre (Kamloopa) and the Stratford Festival (Every Little Nookie), to name a few.

Advocating for inclusion and the representation of diversity, Aria uses their artistic practice to question the ways we can coexist together.

To learn more about Aria’s vast body of work, visit www.ariaevans.ca.