Evolve Dynamicz

Introducing Lila Klaus (she/they), 2025 Improv Dynamicz Dancer!

Lila Ruth Klaus hails from Washington DC. While training and performing in DC, she was able to perform in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The White House, and The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She received a scholarship from the Trawick foundation in 2008, and was a member of the Joy of Motion Youth Dance Ensemble, which received the Metro DC Dance Award for Best Youth Performance in 2013. She has performed and presented her choreography at Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine; the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina; Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska; the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Hibernian Hall in Dorchester; Arts at the Armory in Somerville; The Foundry in Cambridge; and Salem Arts Festival in Salem, Massachusetts. She received her BA in Dance with a concentration in Theology from Bard College in 2018 where she performed in the works of Trisha Brown both at the Richard B. Fisher Center and in New York City, during the Bard College/Trisha Brown Dance Company partnership. In 2017, her solo The Weight of Our Bones was accepted into the American College Dance Festival Northeast Gala. Lila was a part of The Dance Complex's 2022 aMaSSiT cohort. She currently works as an educator at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, and has served as the Dance Arts Mentor at the URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy for multiple summers.

Photos by Olivia Moon Photography courtesy of Alive Dance Collective.

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VIVE10 is an evening-length concert of contemporary dance showcasing 10 years of work created and produced by Evolve Dynamicz Dance Collective. The show is a family-friendly event for all ages. The evening performance will offer two viewing experiences: a traditional theater setting and an open studio equipped with interactive toys. The open studio will feature a live stream of the performance, allowing guests to talk, play, and dance while they watch. Patrons are welcome to move between the two spaces at designated times, but children ages 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Introducing Jessie Hogestyn (she/her), 2025 Evolve Repertoire Dancer!

A native of Rochester, NY, Jessie began dancing at A Touch of Dance Performing Arts Studio at age four where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, and hip hop. She went on to dance with Louvre Performance Ensemble while she earned her B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. Jessie continued her education at the U of R, obtaining a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2020. During her graduate training she revisited her love of hip hop, choreographing and competing for five years with Indulgence Dance Crew, a student-run group under the U of R Black Student’s Union. Jessie moved to the Boston area for a postdoctoral fellowship in biopharma research and joined Evolve Dynamicz in February 2020.

Photo 2 by Olivia Moon Photography at Evolve's REVIVE (2021).

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VIVE10 is an evening-length concert of contemporary dance showcasing 10 years of work created and produced by Evolve Dynamicz Dance Collective. The show is a family-friendly event for all ages. The evening performance will offer two viewing experiences: a traditional theater setting and an open studio equipped with interactive toys. The open studio will feature a live stream of the performance, allowing guests to talk, play, and dance while they watch. Patrons are welcome to move between the two spaces at designated times, but children ages 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

VIVE10 also includes a cash bar for adult patrons.
Celebrate 10 years of the Evolve community as we continue to experiment with new vocabularies,
collaborators, and mediums of expression through our commitment to sharing our passion for dance for audiences of all types.

Saturday, November 1 at 7:00pm
Sunday, November 2 at 5:30pm

The Dance Complex