Hello, I’m Armineh Keshishian, Artistic Director of Evolution Dance Theatre
Armineh Keshishian is the President and Artistic Director of Evolution Dance Theatre which has created and produced a number of multidisciplinary dance theatre productions.
Armineh is a multi-faceted entrepreneur who believes in abundant living, and that anything is possible if you truly desire it. Her sincere desire to create beauty and abundance in the world has impacted many. Her academic training in business coupled with her passion and creativity and most importantly her views that ‘we always have a choice’ has inspired many.
For Armineh, dance has been an outlet that has allowed her to celebrate her life journey and foster greater understanding of complex cultural issues. Finding her way to the stage, Armineh’s passion for dance and performance began as a young child. Armineh has had an extensive performing and choreographic career, spanning more than twenty years. Armineh’s passion for the arts and culture, her tenacity and her desire to create beauty and acceptance has gained her the position of Artistic Director at Evolution Dance Theatre. “I like to express my body not in an isolated form as an individual expression but as a cultural awareness, a story or a history where I am connected to the world” she says.
Armineh has created and produced a number of multidisciplinary and multimedia productions. She says, “By creating Evolution … of the Human Kind, my objective was to show the differences of power in its variations such as implied power vs. true power where the latter comes from within”. “And with behind the Veil” another creation, she adds “I approach the story as a current phenomenon with a reflection on the past”. For Follow Your Heart, Armineh’s Broadway style Middle Eastern creation she says; “The story is important at this time because with the current world events Follow Your Heart is a true representation of the Middle Eastern people not from a political or religious perspective but from a cultural and social point of view. It is particularly interesting to me because of its compelling nature both artistically and socially.”
Armineh’s personal experience with art and the traditions of the Middle East adds authenticity to these shows and her experience in finance has provided the fiduciary skills and discipline needed to present successful dance theatre productions.