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DANCE FACULTY

Ford Evans

Ford Evans is Director of Hopkins Center Dance and the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble. He was a professor at the University of Utah in the Department of Modern Dance from 1985 through 1997, where he taught modern technique, composition, repertory and performance at the undergraduate and graduate level. He served as artistic director of the University of Utah's Performing Dance Company, produced works by faculty and renown guest choreographers and toured with the company in Asia, Australia and the United States. As a principal dancer with the Repertory Dance Theatre from 1978-1985, he performed an extensive range of works by historical and contemporary masters of modern dance throughout the U.S. and Europe. Professional and university dance companies have performed his choreography nationally and in China, Taiwan, South Africa and Costa Rica. Professor Evans teaches Movement Fundamentals 1 & 2, Dance Composition and Dance Studies in Performance in the Theater Department.

Melinda Evans

Melinda Evans was a member of the Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1981-1995. While with RDT, she toured nationally and internationally, performing in an expansive repertory of classic and contemporary modern dance, including works by Merce Cunningham, Laura Dean, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon, David Parsons and Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. In addition to teaching master classes throughout the U.S., she was guest faculty at the University of Utah in 1995, at Brigham Young University 1995-1996 and guest artist at the Universidad Nationale in Costa Rica in 1996. She received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College in 2002. Summer of 2005 she attended the Doug Varone Intensive at Suny Purchase, NY.

Mary Chris DeBelina

Mary Chris DeBelina has been dancing for 23 years, and is trained in ballet, jazz, tap and modern. In 2005 she graduated from Dartmouth College where she studied Dance and Biology. She received her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY in the spring of 2008. At Dartmouth, Mary Chris studied under Professor Ford Evans and performed pieces by Professor Evans, Terry Creach, Laura Dean and Marina Harris. In the summer of 2005, she traveled to the University of Utah to attend the Virginia Tanner Children's Creative Dance Teacher Workshop, and subsequently co-founded Children's Creative Dance at Dartmouth with Professor Evans. At Sarah Lawrence, Mary Chris studied under Sara Rudner and performed works by Twyla Tharp and Trisha Brown. While in graduate school, she taught adult dance classes at the college and children's creative dance in the New York public school system.