William “Bill” Evans

Bill Evans is a performer, teacher, choreographer, lecturer, administrator, movement analyst, writer, adjudicator and dance advocate with a uniquely varied and comprehensive background of experiences and accomplishments.

Bill has choreographed more than 200 works that have been performed by professional and pre-professional ballet, modern dance, and tap companies throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and New Zealand. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his choreography. He also received the University of Utah College of Fine Arts Distinguished Dance Alumnus Award in 2011, the Dance Teacher Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 2010, the National Dance Education Organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts in 2001, the Albuquerque Arts Alliance Bravo Award for Excellence in Dance in 1997 and 2003, the National Dance Association Scholar/Artist in 1997, and was selected as one of three favorite national tap dance artists (with Savion Glover and Brenda Bufalino) in the 2004 Dance Magazine Readers Choice Poll.