Steven P. Evans joined Mutual Dance Theatre when it was MamLuft&Co. Dance in 2014. During 3 seasons as a Company Member, Evans’ talent was quickly apparent: he performed lead roles and heavily contributed choreography in Artistic Director Jeanne Mam-Luft’s canon of works including /SHIFT/, Maps, and Memoriam. After starring The Double by Susan Honer, an evening-length work based on the eponymous Dostoevsky novella, Honer led the creation of seminal company works The Tragedy of Time (which premiered at the Cincinnati Art Museum in conjunction with the WWI Centennial) and Double|Sided (which premiered at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center to sold-out audiences). As a Company Member, Evans also collaborated with Dutch sound artist, Allard Van Hoorn through a partnership with the Contemporary Arts Center. Beginning in 2020, Evans led the Company as Director whilst creating new stageworks. Evans hails originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography at Ohio University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. While at Ohio University, he was the recipient of the Undergraduate Student Enhancement Award and the College of Fine Arts Creative Research Award for his project “Improvisational Dance: Performance Development, Exploration, and Movement Stylization.” Evans apprenticed with Sean Curran Company in New York City in 2012.

Jeanne Mam-Luft‘s choreographic work returns to the stage for the first time since 2019, pre-COVID. Mam-Luft is the Artistic and Executive Director of Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers and founder of the MamLuft&Co. Dance-side of the organization. Mam-Luft holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University. Mam-Luft studied at American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival (on full scholarships), as well as at Carnegie Mellon’s acclaimed School of Drama, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and Point Park University. Her training includes study with Sarah Gamblin (Bebe Miller Dance Company), Mary Williford-Shade (Dance Alloy), James Caton (Ballet Metropolitan), Melissa M. Young and Nycole Ray (Bruce Wood Company, Dallas Black Dance Theatre), Ming-Lung Yang (Trisha Brown Dance Company), Tatiana Baganova (Provincial Dances Russia), as well as many others. As an artist-producer, Mam-Luft has produced dozens of evening length and nearly 100 shorter works (35 of which she was lead choreographer). She was the first and only dance artist to be named a City of Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellow in support of an original dance-for-camera she choreographed, filmed, and edited. She has been the curator of the Jefferson James Contemporary Dance Theater Series since 2021. She is certified in Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau and is also a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional. She served on the board of OhioDance for 6 years and has been a grant panelist for the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Mam-Luft has served on juries for Full Radius Dance (Atlanta, Georgia) and The Cincy Fringe Festival, among others. She was raised in Texas after her family escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide. Most of her works are inspired by her family’s experiences, the need for belonging and connection, as well as the unique physical and emotional range that dancers are capable of. Her choreography has been performed in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Mam-Luft is also a graphic designer, photographer, and sewist.