Eva Dean Dance (EDD) is a Brooklyn-based modern dance company that is known for its imaginative repertory and vibrant performers. The Company's repertory is genuine, atmospheric, conceptually dynamic, kinetic and humorous. Eva Dean Dance has performed at numerous venues in New York City, including City Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the 92nd Street Y, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the HERE Arts Center, as well as nationally and internationally. Site-specific works are one of the company's specialties and they have enjoyed the challenge of creating work for anywhere requested, from empty swimming pools to 19th century barns, from staircases to botanical gardens.
Since the Company's founding in 1985, Eva Dean Dance has established itself as both a performing and an arts services organization. The mission of Eva Dean Dance is to support and strengthen the presence of dance as a performing art form in New York City and around the world, to develop and reach diverse audiences for dance, to support the work of other choreographers and dancers, to create and perform the choreography of Eva Dean, and to teach Eva Dean Dance technique and repertory to students representing a wide range of ages, abilities, and cultural backgrounds.
In 2000, Eva Dean Dance opened a studio, Union Street Dance, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Union Street Dance is the home of the Subsidized Dance Rehearsal Rental Program, a program of Eva Dean Dance. Ms. Dean and her dancers have developed a dance technique that uses physioballs to strengthen the energetic reach and physical endurance of dancing artists. Built from the Bounce repertory, the technique is taught by EDD company members to professional dancers at Union Street Dance.
EVA DEAN
Ms. Dean is a consummate professional, flexible in her approach, and responsive to her colleagues and audiences.
- Keely Garfield, Co-Curator Family Matters, Dance Theatre Workshop
Eva Dean is a prolific choreographer who has created more than forty dances over the past 22 years. Throughout the years her choreography has received critical acclaim and accolades from audiences, presenters and students. Ms. Dean is recognized as a consummate professional who creates work that is diverse in scope. Her choreography has been performed extensively in theaters as well as alternative spaces, ranging from a turn-of-the-century barn in Massachusetts to a convention center in the United Arab Emirates . Her most recent work, Sonorous Echo, premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in July 2007. Alloy Orchestra created the sound score and performed in the world premiere of this rich and complex work. The sound score for Eva Dean Dance’s Sonorous Echo was commissioned by the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program.
Ms. Dean’s BOUNCE, has delighted thousands of audience members ranging in ages 4 to 104. BOUNCE has been performed in numerous venues and theaters throughout New York and New England including Dance Theater Workshop, First Night Boston, Kupferberg Center , and Carol Autorino Center . BOUNCE's furthest performance destination was the Jumeria Center in Dubai . Ms. Dean has extensive experience choreographing site-specific works. Some of these works include Civry in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden , Ledge (in an empty swimming pool) and Dances at the Boathouse in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park , among many others. Ms. Dean has also collaborated with musicians and puppet-masters, working with Max Gyllenhaal, the creator of Zortz Puppets, in Totem and Bamboo and Sonorous Echo and with saxophonist Harry Man in It Isn't Done with Mirrors. In November of 1985, Ms. Dean formed Eva Dean Dance with the assistance of the Cultural Council Foundation. In 2000, she opened Union Street Dance, Eva Dean Dance's home base and dance studio, in Brooklyn , New York . She has taught for the past fifteen years as a guest artist at colleges, professional dance studios, and New York City Public Schools, as well as in Union Street Dance..
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