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Nikki
Dunnan, Co-founder and Executive Director
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). |
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| Erika Malone In July of 2004, Erika became the Education & Outreach Director at Eveoke Dance Theatre. Currently, Erika is Eveoke's Programs Director. She also serves as a Company Dancer, Performing Group Mentor & Dancer, and Studio Teacher. Erika has lived in San Diego since the fall of 2001. Since moving here, Erika has worked as a Teaching Artist for VAPA, City Moves, Eveoke Dance Theatre, San Diego Center for the Moving Arts, and the Best Friends Program at Rosa Parks Elementary. In her first year in San Diego, Erika served as a Rehabilitation Specialist for New Alternatives at the brand new San Pasqual Academy. Under the direction of Frank Kros, she helped design and create the Academy’s first after-school creative arts program. For two years, Erika also served as Secretary on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Center for the Moving Arts. Erika has trained and performed with Eveoke since 2002: dancing in Eveoke's: Parting the Sea, Funkalosophy, Monstopoly, Mothers, Women Rebels, Hip Hop Is Everywhere, Soul of a Young Girl...Dances of Anne Frank, and Hips. |
Ericka Aisha Moore believes in the impact of art (dance) to empower individuals, which therefore empowers community. Since starting to study dance (jazz, ballet, modern, and hip-hop) seriously at the age of 15, Ericka has been driven to perform and to create pieces that speak about the world she lives in. Ericka made her 2000 choreographic debut with Fingers N the Hood. The piece toured 5 inner-city areas in San Diego (The Urban Village, Encanto Boys and Girls club, Chicano Park, Centre City, and North Park Community Center) receiving the Union-Tribune Critic's Choice Award and extensive television coverage. Funkalosophy was Ericka's second full-length show created in 2002. Funkalosophy reveals how the hip-hop subculture contributes to an activist dance theatre, while empowering youth and others with a voice concerning their political and social issues. Funkalosophy was reset in 2003 and 2004. The 2004 production was the longest running dance theatre production in San Diego; 9 weeks 6 shows a week. Moore’s third full-length performance was titled Fallen Petals and was commissioned by a grant from The California Arts Council. The presentation interweaved East Indian dance with hip-hop and modern dance to create a unique, combined vocabulary of expression. Ericka has been a professional dancer for Eveoke Dance Theatre since 1997, performing in over 17 full-length shows as a principal dancer for Eveoke and danced her first season (2006/2007) with Colette Dance Collective. Accomplished in sound design, Ericka has designed music for Eveoke Dance Theatre, Stone Soup, and SledgeHammer Theatre.
Yvonne Hernandez
graduated from the Conservatory at Point Park University with a BA in Dance. She began dancing and teaching for Eveoke in 2002. In 2004 Yvonne was invited into the Concert Company, performing in various shows such as Women Rebels, Mothers, Hips, and Soul of a Young Girl: Dances of Anne Frank. Currently Yvonne is also performing in her first season with Colette Harding Contemporary Dance Collective and Skin Muscle Bone Dance Company.
Becky Hurt
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.
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