Nikki Dunnan, Executive Director and Co-founder

Since 1994 Nikki has served as an Eveoke Concert Company dancer and Master Teacher.  In July 2000 she became the Administrative Director, handling all daily operations for the organization.   Now as Executive Director, Nikki plans Eveoke’s performance season, rehearses the Concert Company, fosters the work of Eveoke’s emerging choreographers, hones Eveoke’s technical curriculum, sets the annual budget and oversees all company business.  She also curates and coordinates the annual Celebrate Dance Festival, a three-day free event in Balboa Park featuring over 70 regional dance artists and organizations.  Nikki attended UC Irvine as a dance major from 1993-1996.  She trained under such teachers as Israel “EL” Gabriel and Afshim Mofid, and featured roles in works by Les Watanabe, Donald Bradburn, and James Penrod.  She graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in psychology in 1999.  Nikki has been featured in all 27 Eveoke productions including Soul of a Young Girl…Dances of Anne Frank  (1996, 2000, 2006); as Yellow in Hope for the Flowers (1997); as Margaret Sanger and Annie Sullivan in Women Rebels (2002); as Raggedy Andy in Monstropoly (2004); Mothers (2004); Hips (2006); Hip Hop is Everywhere (2006); and most recently in Luna- Dances of Love and RISE- The California Earth Project (2007). 

Erika Malone, Programs Director

Erika Malone has a BA in Theatre and Dance from Sarah Lawrence College (1998).  She moved to San Diego in September of 2001 from New York City.  Erika Malone has been training and dancing with Eveoke Dance Theatre since 2002.  She was invited to join the professional Concert Company in 2004.  So far, she has danced in Women Rebels (2003), Mothers (2004), Funkalosophy (2004), Monstropoly (2004), Parting the Sea (2005), Hips (2006), Soul of a Young Girl: Dances of Anne Frank (2006), Hip Hop is Everywhere (2006), Luna: Dances of Love (2007) and RISE – The California Earth Project (2007).  She has also been dancing in Eveoke’s Performing Group for 6 years, providing over 60+ performances per year through school assemblies and community festival opportunities.  Erika serves as Eveoke’s Programs Director, overseeing their many successful programs that provide dance education to over 3,000 students on a weekly basis in neighborhoods all over the city.   Erika maintains Eveoke’s Teacher Training Program and designs curriculum for the outreach classes.  Erika’s favorite part of her job is creating partnerships and collaborations with other arts organizations in San Diego.  Her most recent collaboration was with the San Diego Symphony.  The Symphony commissioned the company to create a dance piece set to live music for their annual Young People’s Concerts.

C.A. Irvine, Business Director

An entrepreneur and pioneering computer scientist, Mr. Irvine has been in the computer industry since 1956. In 1984 Mr. Irvine founded, and is President of Eclectic Solutions Consulting­­­—an information systems consulting organization. His degrees are in mathematics with minors in philosophy, English and physics. Mr. Irvine has published many technical papers, testified before Congress and been an invited member of two National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council panels: The Committee on the IRS [$8 Billion] Tax System Modernization and The Panel on Research on Future [2010] Census Methods.

From 1990 to 1997 he was a member of the Board of Teatro Máscara Mágica, and served as the President of the Board for three of those years. He joined the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Repertory Theatre in 1988 and served on that Board for 15 years in the positions of Vice President, Membership Chair and Secretary. In 2000, he joined the Board of Trustees of Eveoke Dance Theatre serving as a Trustee and Treasurer through 2003.  He briefly chaired the Advisory Board of the Common Ground Theatre in 2005. He has been awarded three “Star” awards.

Becky Hurt, Programs Coordinator

Becky has been dancing for 24 years.  She graduated from the School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego and went on to minor in Dance at SDSU fro 2 years.  Outside of school, Becky performed with Unity Dance Ensemble for 7 years.  She has been training, teaching, and dancing with Eveoke Dance Theatre for 2 years, and has recently been promoted from the Performing Group to Company Dancer.

Gina Angelique, Founding Artistic Director, envisioned an activist modern/folk concert company that cultivates compassionate social action through arts education and evocative performance.  Since 1994, Eveoke has created 28 Sensurround dance theatre pieces that frame debates about difficult social, political, and environmental issues.  These acclaimed works include Mothers, House of Hysteria, Birth, Worth, and Hand-Me-Downs, the Soul of a Young Girl…Dances Of Anne Frank, The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere, Alice Lost Wonderland, and Fishtales.  In addition, Angelique has received rave reviews for her work in the theatre for Sweet Charity at Sledgehammer Theatre, The Imaginary Invalid, A Christmas Carol, The Illusion, and Celebration of the Lizard at The San Diego Repertory Theatre and The Woman Who Forgot Her Sweater at the Ford Theatre.  Angelique is the winner of three Backstage West/ Garland Awards, three Tommy Dance Awards, and numerous other honors for her work in the community.  Prior to settling in San Diego, Angelique taught for Saint Joseph’s Ballet at-risk youth education program in Santa Ana, where she wrote the curriculum for a new modern dance and hip-hop component for this world famous youth services organization.  The Eveoke Education Program is the city’s first dance program designed specifically to provide opportunities for inner city, low-income children.  The program focuses on bringing non-violent expressive dance to youth through both off-site and on-site programming.  Angelique has created working partnerships and collaborations with dozens of public and private organizations.

Christopher Hall, Founding Producer of Eveoke Dance Theatre, Christopher has been involved building audiences and creating performances since 1986, working in many different sites and stage environments.  He manages and designs productions, builds audiences and helps generate community and financial support for the mission to cultivate compassionate social action.  In his tenure at Eveoke, he planned Eveoke’s performance season with Founding Artistic Director and partner, Gina Angelique, as well as set the annual budget for the organization and marketing strategies for the company.  Eveoke has 28 original dance-theatre works in repertory, offers 45 dance classes each week (many in partnership with other organizations) and produces the free Celebrate Dance Festival, one of the largest events of its kind, presenting over 70 dance companies to more than 10,000 residents and tourists annually in Balboa Park.

Chris is a strong advocate for providing full and complete access to the arts for all economic sectors, and also for incorporating arts programming and projects into community planning.  While in San Diego, he served as a board member of Citizens Coordinate for Century 3, as well as: the Community Advisory Council for LEAD San Diego, the Arts & Culture Subcommittee for the Downtown Community Plan Update, the Centre City Advisory Committee (and co-chair of the Long-range Planning sub-committee), the Downtown Parking Management Group and the Board of Eveoke Dance Theatre.  Chris graduated from Earlham College with a BA in Theatre Arts, studied in the MFA program at UC Irvine before co-founding Eveoke.