Eva Anderson Dance

CONTACT

evaanderson119@gmail.com
Instagram @evaanderson119

Photos by Doug McMinimy

ABOUT ME

California-based dancer, choreographer, and artist. Passionate and excited about dancemaking, creative collaboration, and process. Eager to keep going.

Education

University of California, Davis
B.A. Theatre & Dance
B.S. Cognitive Science

UC Regent’s Scholarship
University Honors Program

Employment

Mounarath Powell Dance
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
2018-present

University of California, Davis
Research Assistant
2024-present

Mentors

Spencer John Powell
David Grenke
Doria Charlson
My mother and father

Skills

Modern Dance: Graham, Taylor, Horton, Dunham, Limón
Ballet
Jazz
Contact improvisation
Fight choreography
Collaboration
Musicality
Playing pool
Discipline

Awards

National Youth Arts Award (2019)- Outstanding Choreography
“Sound of Music” at Helix High School

National Youth Arts Award (2018)- Outstanding Dance Performance
“Tremors” by Jeanne Travers

Publications

“From Brain to Ballet: Mapping the Neural Landscape of Dance and Aesthetics”

Published in Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA (2025)

Valies

Show up for your friends
Receive the world as a gift
Eat lots of vegetables
Move the body forever
Stay in the question

Last Updated 24.10.31

EVA ANDERSON

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Choreographer
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Reverie

Original work created on Mounarath Powell Dance
Premieres October 2025

pictures coming soon

Reverie is an ode to community, joy, belief, and togetherness. A shared journey of moving forward. Reverie unfolds through a particular movement language, shaped by my engagement with Paul Taylor’s technique.

To Dust We Return

May 2025
presented in Rules of Play at UC Davis

Costume Designer: Leo McConnell
Lighting Designer: Kaely McCurdy

Photos by Bea Augustin, UC Regents

Cycles of nature. Mortality. Evolution. Relationship to and from the earth. Decomposition, recomposition. Blooming and falling.

A Cabaret Show

May 2025

Co-Created by Eva Anderson and Eliza Gilligan
Produced by Theater for Social Change
Premiered at Wyatt Pavilion Theater

Photos by Lee MacDonald

A silly, sexy show. Queer, camp, and pure joy. The most fun we had all year.

ADRIFT-DRAFT

Spring/Summer 2024
Co-created by Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn and Eva Anderson

Presented at the Manetti Shrem Museum.

ADRIFT-DRAFT is an improvised, durational dance installation performance, culminating from a year of research around slowness, attention, and curiosity. A duet lasting many hours.

Photo by Hung Q Pham

Replay

May/June 2024
presented in [RE]VISION at UC Davis

Photos by Bea Augustin, UC Regents

End of senior year = reminiscing. Piece created to inhabit childhood’s beginning and end. Through the replaying of each dancer’s childhood videos, the inner child is revived in the body, in new time, new space. The self reunited, past and present.

Flood the Valley

May 2023
presented in Outside the Lines at UC Davis

Co-created by Eva Anderson and Eliza Gilligan

Photos by Katherine K Hung, UC Regents

A duet. Waiting for rain. Inspired by California drought and agriculture.

Lapse

May 2023
Presented in Outside the Lines at UC Davis

Photos by Katherine K Hung, UC Regents

Off-kilter, off-axis. A trio about crisis, roommates, and care.

Science in Motion

Premiered November 2019
Full work reset in April 2023

Eva’s first evening-length work, each piece inspired by a different scientific principle-idea-question.

Highlights: String Theory, Wave-Particle Duality, Dark Matter