EVERT EDUCATION Residency Performances & Events
“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 Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools District (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 due to Covid-19)
Arts-Integrated School Residency Programs funded by Ohio Arts Council “TeachArtsOhio” Grants with Project Support from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture:
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
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~ Arts-integrated Lesson Plans
~April 2021
Residency Programs funded by 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 Show
~ 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
Privately Funded Residency Programs & Events:
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 School, 4th Grade “Geometry in Motion”
Wellington, Ohio
Professional Teaching Artist Trainings & Roster Credentials
Ohio Arts Council Arts Summit
Akron, Ohio ~May 2021
Teaching Artist Training
Wooster, Ohio ~May 2020
Tom Evert, B.F.A., Added to the Ohio Arts Council Roster of Professional Credentialed Teaching Artists 2020
Young Audiences Annual Conference New Orleans, LA~ April 2021
Tom Evert, B.F.A., was honored with The National Teaching Artist Credential 2021
DANCE EVERT Performances and Events
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.
DANCE EVERT 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). Tom Evert’s most recent and on-going collaboration is with Ballet EXCEL Ohio, formerly the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet, the oldest pre-professional youth ballet in Ohio.
Collaborations: Teaming with other organizations to 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
