evan ray suzuki is a dance artist and filmmaker of yonsei Japanese descent who creates butoh-ish performance works that investigate liminal hauntings and postinternet unbodiedness. evan has studied butoh primarily in the Tenshi-kan lineage under Kota Yamazaki, Mina Nishimura, and Akira Kasai. Presentations of evan‘s performance work include internationally at the Umbria Factory Festival in Spoleto, Italy, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Pageant, Ars Nova, JACK, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Offerings, LMCC River to River Festival, Cannonball Festival, Salish Sea Butoh Festival, Performance Mix Festival, and many parks, beaches, galleries, and basements. evan has received grants and residencies from the New York State Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, La MaMa, Ars Nova, New Dance Alliance, Amanda+James, and Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche in Italy. As a performer, evan’s credits include works with Kim Brandt, maura nguyễn donohue, Ayano Elson, Gordon Hall, David Neumann, Mina Nishimura, and Glenn Potter-Takata, and he has been a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company since 2023. evan is a 2026 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow.
