Artist Biography

Mya Evans is an artist from the DFW area, she began her dance journey in church at the age of three and has been cultivating her artistic experience ever since. She has trained in various styles like Liturgical dance, traditional drill, African, Afro-Fusion, Hip hop, Majorette, Heels, Modern, Jazz, and Ballet. Mya is a graduate from Texas Women's University with her B.A. in Dance. She has danced works by Abdel Salaam, Michelle Gibson, Bryan Peters and many more. Mya was introduced to production work through dance at Duke University for the American Dance Festival (2022). Mya has taught at international dance festivals like Bailando, and can be most recently seen assisting Michelle Gibson in residency at the University of Texas at Austin for her work; “Altar of Humanity: The Convocation, The Resolution,The Benediction”.She is currently dancing with Beckles Dancing Company and teaching dance at GWC STEM Learning Center where she also acts as the aristic director of the schools dance company, GWC Constellations. Mya also has a production company High Caliber Divisons. The companies vision is to, "Evolve the perspective of people of the African Diaspora in media through all lenses." The production company has four focuses; Dance, Media, Fashion, & Music. It is through all these avenues that Ms.Evans is working to provide service, cultivate community and make dance education more accessible to all. Mya Evans plans to continue to work towards dancing, producing, choreographing, and learning about dance all over the world.