“Triangle, Popsicle Stick, Circle” with Mr. Tom the “Danceman”
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Integrating movement and geometry through virtual learning on “Google Meet” with K, 1st, 2nd graders in Cleveland Heights. Seven Schools.
Annual ‘STEAM Festival’ hosted by Shore Cultural Centre in Euclid, OH. Funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and the Ohio Arts Council
September 2023 ESPIRAL Community Dance Theatre features “STEAM Theme”, June 2022 DANCE EVERT features “Solids, Liquids, Gas!” (with audience youth participation), Saturday, July 11th, 2020/Shore STEAM Festival (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Danceman Performance with Orange Early Education Center ~Orange, Ohio
Monday, June 15th, 2020 (Cancelled)
Ohio Arts Council “TeachArtsOhio” Arts-Integrated School Residency Programs (3 segments: Summer, Winter, Spring)
Kiddie City Childcare Community ~ Euclid, Ohio 44123
Residency Year & Program Theme: August 2020 “States of Matter- Forms of Energy“, 2020 – 2021: “A World of Shapes”, 2021 – 2022: “Easy & Always Dancing”, 2022 – 2023: “Learning Through Motion”, 2023 – 2024: “Triangular Sit & Popsicle Stick!”, 2024 – 2025: “I Love Shapes”
Cleveland Municipal School District Oliver Hazard Perry Elementary School ~ Cleveland, Ohio 44119 ~ Residency Year & Program Theme: “Full STEAM Ahead!” 2024 – 2025, “Making STEM Connections Through the Arts” 2023 – 2024, 2022 – 2023
Cleveland Municipal School District Clara E. Westropp Elementary School of the Arts ~ Cleveland, Ohio 44135 ~ Residency Year & Program Theme: “At My B.E.S.T.”, 2023 – 2024, 2024 – 2025
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
Euclid City Schools
Arbor Elementary, 3rd Grade Science & Dance program. Annual Residency and Show
~December 2020
Arbor Elementary, 4th grade
Euclid, Ohio “Geometry in Motion” Residency
~ March 2021
Cleveland Municipal School District Oliver Hazard Perry Elementary School ~ Cleveland, Ohio 44119 Residency Year & Program Theme: Remote Video Zoom Learning “Full STEAM Ahead!” 2021 – 2022, 2020 – 2021
Cleveland Municipal School District Clara E. Westropp Elementary School of the Arts ~ Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Residency Year & Program Theme: “Full STEAM Ahead!” 2022 – 2023
Birchwood of Hawkin School, Cleveland, Ohio
Grades 1, 3, 5, 7 “Geometry in Motion” Residency
~January 2021, March 2022, April 2023, December 2024
McCormick Elementary, 4th Grade “Geometry in Motion”
Wellington, Ohio
Ohio Arts Council Arts Summit
Akron, Ohio
~May 2021 Teaching Artist Training
Wooster, Ohio *Added to the Ohio Arts Council Roster of Professional Credentialed Teaching Artists
~May 2020
Ohio Arts Council Residency
Good Shepherd School ~Cincinnati, Ohio ~Arts-Integrated Lesson Plans
~October 2020
Ohio Arts Council Residency
Saint Peter in Chains Elementary School
Hamilton, Ohio
~April 2021
Young Audiences Annual Conference New Orleans, LA~ April 2021
Tom Evert was honored with The National Teaching Artist Credential
Concerts: Facing East/DANCE EVERT (Live Music) Mini-Concerts, Commissions, Collaborations, Current Repertoire
Available for Bookings:
Concerts (Evening Length)
Staged works with light and sound design. DANCE EVERT has danced to critical acclaim locally and internationally.
Facing East/DANCE EVERT (Live Music)
Performance of DANCEVERT with FACING EAST
Music Ensemble –A Fusion of East and West. Live music and Dance improvisation!
Mini Performances: Community Outreach Programs
Performances that are staged in informal settings such as community festivals, celebrations, parties and openings.
Cleveland Museum of Art Performances
Choreographic Commissions Award winning choreographers build dance works to suit groups of diverse ability, such as Youth Ensembles to Professional Companies. Original or existing works can be staged ( See repertoire links below). Collaborations: Teaming with other organizations provide synergy and resources. Samples of successful DANCE EVERT collaborations include:
Great Lakes Theatre Festival, NASA, Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Playhouse Square, Karamu House, Visual, technical, performing artists and musicians.
Collaboration with Nasa for Ingenuity Festival 2005
Samples of current repertoire available for performing and touring (Click on title for links of works on You Tube)
“PRESIDENT”: A humorous and frank portrait of a chief of state
“EGO ACT”: A portrait of a man caught in patterns, both graphically and psychologically.
“WE ARE GEOMETRY IN MOTION”: An integration of geometry and dance
