ARCELL CABUAG (Associate Artistic Director/Dancer) is a first-generation Filipino-American from San Jose, CA. He moved to New York City in 1996 to attend the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, where he was introduced to Ronald K. Brown. Soon after, he joined EVIDENCE, A Dance Company as its first apprentice, became a company member one year later, and has served as its Associate Artistic Director since 2004. He currently teaches EVIDENCE repertory at Princeton University and is thrilled to be the newly appointed Billie Holiday Theatre’s Youth Arts Academy Director of Education.

Performance credits include Camille A. Brown, Mekeda Thomas, Rock the House for Paramount Pictures, The Shoji Tabuchi Show (Branson, MO), the Richard Rodgers Centennial Production of The King and I, and dance festivals worldwide. Arcell taught classes and performed with EVIDENCE throughout Africa as a US Ambassador with Dance Motion USA. TV Credits include Law & Order: SVU "Choreographed" episode and a Codorniu Cava commercial with Pilobolus shot in Barcelona and aired on Spanish television. He has assisted Mr. Brown in creating repertory for Philadanco Dance Company, MUNTU Drum and Dance Company, TU Dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company and served as associate choreographer for the Tony Award-winning Broadway and national touring productions of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Mr. Cabuag is proud to serve the dance community as a long-standing educator and advocate nationally and abroad. Education, advocacy, and teaching EVIDENCE repertory work include Professor of Dance at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), Education Director of the Youth Arts Academy/Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, University of Massachusetts, Boston Arts Academy, Peridance Certificate Program, The Ailey Fordham BFA and certificate programs, University of Washington, University of the Arts, Kent State, DeSales University, Coker College, Marymount Manhattan College, Connecticut College, Jacob’s Pillow, and Boston Conservatory. Arcell is a 2004 New York Dance and Performance ¨Bessie¨ award winner for his performance and work with EVIDENCE, and he received an Abundance Dance Award in February 2024 as a Leader of the Path Honoree.