January 05, 2010

Development as a Dancer


  • Guest engagements with The National Ballet of Canada for Prince Florimund in Rudolph Nureyev's ''The Sleeping Beauty'' and for Albrecht in Sir Peter Wright's ''Giselle.''
  • Guest writer and spokesperson for CHACOTT Dance Cube, Tokyo, Japan.
  • ApuliArte Prize for Achievement in Dance. Italy, 2012.
  • Debuted with Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris in John Cranko's 'ONEGIN'. The Financial Times stated that McKie's performance and partnership with Aurelie Dupont were ''The absolute sensation of the Season.''
  • Danced as a guest principal with The Universal Ballet in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Named honorary advisory board member of Dance Magazine, New York.
  • Appeared in ''Stars of the 21st Century'' Ballet Gala at Theatre de Champs Elysees, Paris and Panama City Panama.
  • Appeared in Pyotr Pestov Ballet Gala at Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow.
  • Invited by Pina Bausch to perform Marco Goecke's BLUSHING.
  • Named Principal Dancer by Reid Anderson in 2008 after dancing HAMLET in Kevin O'Day's abstract version of Shakespeare's tragedy.
  • Soloist Dancer in 2005 during performance of Lenski in Cranko's 'ONEGIN'.
  • Demi Soloist, 2004
  • Joined The Stuttgart Ballet in 2001.
  • Invited by the legendary Pyotr Pestov† to complete training at The John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Upper School at The Kirov Academy of Ballet D.C. following invitation from Oleg Vinogradov and Yelena Vinogradova†.
  • Lower School at The National Ballet School of Canada.
  • Early creative education: Delvecchio, Hartley.
  • Evan was born in Toronto on April 7th, 1983.