Assistant Professor of Dance Named NYU Fellow
October 5, 2020
Tommie-Waheed Evans, an assistant professor of dance is a Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU 2020–2021 fellow—one of only 12 artists chosen from NYU’s largest-ever group of applicants.
“The CBA Fellowship Program invites scholars and artists to the center to develop self-directed projects that expand the way we think about ballet’s history, practice and performance,” according to NYU’s website.
Evans’ project, HOME, examines race and marginalization in Philadelphia. “This project will open space for conversations and solutions to the fear, anger and mistrust that cloud the present,” Waheed described. “In our current climate of violence and social injustice, how can we curate experiences that give rise to possibilities for healing and liberation? My hope is that HOME ripples through Philadelphia and the world.” The project will generate a new choreographic work for Waheed Works, Evans’ Philadelphia-based dance company.
Evans also received the 2019 Princess Grace Honoria Award in Choreography, among numerous other honors.