Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986. He joined New York City Ballet's corps de ballet in 1988 and was immediately given leading roles in William Forsythe's "Behind The China Dogs" and Eliot Feld's "The Unanswered Question" at City Ballet's American Music Festival. He was promoted to soloist in 1991 and to principal in 1995.

Roles

Evans has originated or danced featured roles in:

George Balanchine

*Agon
*Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
*Concerto Barocco
*Cortège Hongrois
*Danses Concertantes
*Episodes
*The Four Temperaments
*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?

Jerome Robbins

*Gershwin Concerto
*The Goldberg Variations

Peter Martins

*Ash
*Ecstatic Orange
*Fearful Symmetries
*Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements)
*Jeu de Cartes
*Les Gentilhommes
*Jeu de Cartes
*Reliquary
*The Sleeping Beauty "Puss in Boots"
*Slonimsky's Earbox
*Swan Lake "Von Rotbart, Hungarian," and "Russian"
*Todo Buenos Aires

Christopher Wheeldon

*Klavier
*Liturgy
*Polyphonia

Kevin O'Day

*Open Strings
*Swerve Poems

Ulysses Dove

*Red Angels
*Twilight

Miriam Mahdaviani

*Appalachia Waltz
*Correlazione

John Alleyne

*The New Blondes

Christopher d'Amboise

*Circle Of Fifths

Garth Fagan

*"Ellington Elation" from Duke!

Eliot Feld

*The Unanswered Question

= William Forsythe =

*Behind The China Dogs

Robert La Fosse

*Concerto In Five Movements

Trey McIntyre

*Steel and Rain

David Parsons

*Touch

Alexei Ratmansky

*Russian Seasons

Susan Stroman

*"Makin' Whoopee!" (Joe Doherty) from Double Feature

Twyla Tharp

*The Beethoven Seventh

External links

* [http://www.nycballet.com New York City Ballet home page]

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D9153BF935A2575BC0A961948260&scp=4&sq=%22albert+evans%22+new+york+city+ballet&st=nyt NY Times article by Jennifer Dunning, August 16, 1987]

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DC153DF93BA35755C0A961948260&scp=6&sq=%22albert+evans%22+new+york+city+ballet&st=nyt NY Times article by Anna Kisselgoff, June 8, 1987]

* [http://www.criticaldance.com/reviews/2003/NYCB20030620.html "Critical Dance" review by Kate Snedeker, June 20, 2003]

* [http://balanchine.org/balanchine/05/archive/2003nypl.html George Balanchine Foundation press release, August 14, 2003]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/arts/dance/19laro.html NY Times article by Claudia La Rocco, November 19, 2006]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/dance/17nycb.html NY Times review by Alastair Macaulay, May 17, 2007]

* [http://theartsetal.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/nycb-interviews-albert-evans/ "The Arts et al" interview, November 12, 2007]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/arts/dance/12ball.html?scp=3&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nyt NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, January 12, 2008]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/dance/19bala.html?scp=2&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nyt NY Times review by Alastair Macaulay, January 19, 2008]

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/arts/dance/28spri.html?scp=1&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nyt NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, January 28, 2008]