Erik Abbott-Main Boy Friday New York City Dance Choreographer Performance
Evik Abbott-Main
Director
Choreographer, director and creator of surreal performance experiences. Their work has been presented with support by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Arts on Site, Center for Performance Research, CUNY Dance Initiative, The Johnstone Fund, OSU Alumni Graduate Research Grants, NYSCA and more. They are a longtime performer with Punchdrunk in their NYC production of Sleep No More. They have worked as a dance consultant to the Canadian Ice Dance Team who would go on to win gold at the 2010 & 2018 Winter Olympics. Additionally working under the moniker Boy Friday, Evik has held residencies with CUNY Dance Initiative, New Dance Alliance, Brighton Dance festival, and a 2019 Kaatsbaan UpStream artist. In 2020, Evik was a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Dance at Indiana University, leading courses in advanced technique and choreography both in-peron and remote (due to covid-19). Additional creative/academic posts were held at The Ohio State University, Eastern Michigan University, Saginaw Valley State, Dance Italia, American College Dance Festival, Brighton Dance Festival, and many more. Their creative work generated through Boy Friday embeds interdisciplinary inquiry within a movement praxis, bringing queer voices & experiences to the foreground. Evik is particularly interested in the ways in which theatricality and personal histories are embedded in the weight of the human body in action and works to bridge these connections in their research. They also remain an active student in yoga, literature, animated video shorts, stilt and other off-ground arts.
