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ALBERT EVANS

Background
 
Albert Evans was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in Atlanta. In 1986, he was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet. Mr. Evans was made a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet in the spring of 1988, and was immediately given leading roles in two American Music Festival ballets: William Forsythe's Behind The China Dogs, and Eliot Feld's The Unanswered Question. He was promoted to soloist in the spring of 1991, and to principal in the winter of 1995.
 
Since joining New York City Ballet, Mr. Evans has danced featured roles in: George Balanchine's: Agon, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco, Cortège Hongrois, Danses Concertantes, Episodes, The Four Temperaments, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™ (Cavalier) , A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck), Monumentum pro Gesualdo, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Union Jack, Western Symphony, Who Cares?; Peter Martins': Ash, Ecstatic Orange, Fearful Symmetries, Les Gentilhommes, Jeu de Cartes, Reliquary, Swan Lake (Von Rotbart, Hungarian, and Russian); Jerome Robbins':   Gershwin Concerto, The Goldberg Variations; Twyla Tharp's: The Beethoven Seventh; and Christopher Wheeldon's: Polyphonia and Liturgy

Mr. Evans has originated roles in a number of works by Peter Martins, including: Ash, Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), Jeu de Cartes, The Sleeping Beauty (Puss in Boots), Slonimsky's Earbox, Todo Buenos Aires

Mr. Evans also originated roles in:  John Alleyne's The New Blondes, Christopher d'Amboise's Circle Of Fifths, Ulysses Dove's Red Angels and Twilight, Garth Fagan's "Ellington Elation" from Duke!, Robert La Fosse's Concerto In Five Movements, Miriam Mahdaviani's Appalachia Waltz and Correlazione, Trey McIntyre's Steel and Rain, Kevin O'Day's Open Strings and Swerve Poems, David Parsons' Touch, Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons, Susan Stroman's "Makin' Whoopee!" (Joe Doherty) from Double Feature, and Christopher Wheeldon's Klavier

Other Performances:  In May of 2002, Mr. Evans appeared in the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of "New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography," dancing in Red Angels.

Choreography: Mr. Evans choreographed Haiku to John Cage music for New York City Ballet's 2002 Diamond Project. In January 2003, Mr. Evans' One Body, a solo for former NYCB Principal Dancer Peter Boal to music by John Kennedy, was premiered at the Joyce Theater as part of the Altogether Different Festival. Mr. Evans choreographed Broken Promises, a pas de deux, set to an original score by Juilliard composition student Mathew Fuerst during the spring 2005 season.