Moriah Evans is a 2025–2027 VLC Fellow whose fellowship project, Calibrated Alien, is part of the Vera List Center’s Focus Theme cycle Matter of Intelligence.

What constitutes “intelligence” is mysterious; body/dance/movement should be essential to any formulation. Part of a multi-year, multi-component project, […/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^]: SOMATIC SUMMIT continues Moriah Evans’ investigations into how the knowledge our bodies hold furthers our understanding of one another. Our intelligence—the result of biomechanisms as well as social and political situations—shapes our perspectives, defines what we can sense, and determines what we believe we can do. Our bodies are the axis through which political and cultural connectivity emanates; yet, the knowledge our bodies contain and express is not widely appreciated or understood.

Moriah Evans is a New York-based artist working in and on the form of dance as an artifact, object, and culture with its histories, protocols, default production mechanisms, modes of staging, and viewing. Evans approaches choreography as an ideological pursuit capable of probing the intersections of embodiment, performance, and politics. Recent works include: Remains Persist, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2023) and Performance Space New York (2022); REPOSE, Beach Sessions, New York (2021); Be My Muse, Pace Live, New York (2021); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2018); Configure, The Kitchen, New York (2018). In 2011, Evans initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography—a collective investigating participatory performances. Evans was Editorial Director, Editor-in-Chief, and Managing Editor of Movement Research Performance Journal (2010–22), and Dance & Process Co-Curator, The Kitchen (2016–23). She was a Hodder Fellow (2023–24), Guggenheim Fellow (2022), and FCA Individual Artist Awardee (2017).