About

​Based in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles, Clairey Evangelho (she/her) researches, performs, and teaches movement with roots in contact improvisation, acrobatics, Noguchi Taiso, apparatus-based and site-specific dancing. Her methodologies are informed by studies in neurophysiology, ecological psychology and her own neurodivergence. Her artistic interest lies at the various intersections of task- based improvisation, failure, transparency, applied neuroscience, neurodivergence, and emergent composition. 

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Clairey has studied CI with Nita Little, Sara Shelton Mann, Chris Aiken, Lizz Roman, Angie Houser and Ezra LeBank. She has studied contemporary dance with Melecio Estrella, Katy Faulkner, Randee Paufve and many others. She has studied Gaga and Improvisation with James Graham, Forms of the African Diaspora with Amara Tabor-Smith, and Noguchi Taiso with Mari Osanai.

 Clairey has produced original dance works with ODC Pilot 74 and SAFEHouse RAW. She's danced with Bay Area-based artists Lizz Roman and Dancers, Agua Doce Dance, Amy Lewis, Carol Keuffer-Moore, and Nketchi Njaka with the DeYoung Museum. She recently completed an apprenticeship with AXIS Dance Company where she performed work by Jorge Crecis as well as toured around California co-creating and teaching curriculum for disability-inclusive dance education.

Clairey also loves working in K-2nd special education in Oakland public schools.