E. Wallis Cain Carbonell is an independent creator and Dance Artist based in Philadelphia. She received her early training at the National Ballet School in MD and went on to earn her BFA in Dance from Florida State University. Upon graduation, she danced for six seasons as a principal artist with Roxey Ballet Company. In 2012, Evalina joined Kun-Yang Lin Dancers (KYL/D) where she spent the last twelve years as a dance artist, and in recent years took on the roles of an in-house choreographer and curator of the Inhale Performance Series. As a creator, she has produced 8 shows of her own work for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, received the Ellen Forman Award for choreography in 2017, funding from Small but Mighty Arts in 2018, and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2022 for her choreography on KYL/D. The summer of 2024 marked her first overseas production of her work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In addition to choreographing nationally and locally, Evalina is a teacher of dance, GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC ® and the mother of two young children. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at Bennington College’s Low-Residency program and is pleased to be a member of the tD team of writers.