Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Pierce Evans (December 29, 1968 – June 22, 2015) was an American ballet dancer. He 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. Evans was promoted to soloist in 1991 and to principal in 1995.

Death

Evans died following a short illness on June 22, 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Farewell performance

Evans' farewell performance took place Sunday, June 20, 2010, and consisted of ballets by Balanchine, Forsythe and Miroshnichenko:

• La source
• Herman Schmerman pas de deux

• The Lady with The Little Dog
• The Four Temperaments

Roles

Evans 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
• 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!" (as Joe Doherty) from Double Feature

Twyla Tharp

• The Beethoven Seventh

Reviews

• NY Times article by Jennifer Dunning, August 16, 1987
• NY Times article by Anna Kisselgoff, June 8, 1987
• Critical Dance review by Kate Snedeker, June 20, 2003
• press release, Balanchine Foundation, August 14, 2003
• NY Times article by Claudia La Rocco, November 19, 2006

• NY Times review by Alastair Macaulay, May 17, 2007
• The Arts et al. interview, November 12, 2007
• NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, January 12, 2008
• NY Times review by Alastair Macaulay, January 19, 2008
• NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning, January 28, 2008

External links

• NYCB website

• NY Choreograph Institute bio.