WHO WE ARE.

The Moving Architects, under Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton, is a female-centric dance company that channels the authentic complexity of both the current and historically lived female experience into dance works edged with charged movement and feminine strength. The resulting dance works reveal intense female performances that make connections between bodies in motion, location and space, as well as historical and physical experience.  The Moving Architects also provide quality movement classes, workshops, residencies, and opportunities for dialogue and discussion.

THE STORY.

Erin Carlisle Norton founded The Moving Architects on New Year’s Day, 2007. Growing up in the nooks and crannies of a Victorian house and the Neo-Gothic church outside of Pittsburgh, PA where her father was pastor, she developed a heightened awareness of her experience of physical spaces long-steeped in the passage of time. Adding to this her vigilance in exploring and promoting the female voice, TMA is now a female-centric dance company known for channeling the authentic complexity of both the current and historically lived female experience into dance works edged with charged movement and feminine strength. Norton’s dance works reveal intense female performances that draw from her dance training, academic studies, and independent physical research in Laban Movement Analysis, modern and postmodern academic dance studies, and improvisational study.


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THE ARTISTS.

  • Erin Carlisle Norton

    Erin Carlisle Norton

    Artistic Director.

    Erin Carlisle Norton is a choreographer, dancer, movement educator, and Artistic Director of The Moving Architects...

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  • Caitlin Bailey

    Caitlin Bailey

    Dancer.

    Bailey is a dancer and athlete who trained in dance at Marymount Manhattan College before receiving her BA in Dance from Hunter College...

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  • Ashley Peters

    Ashley Peters

    Dancer.

    Ashley Peters, originally from Utica, New York, holds a BFA in Dance and a BA in Psychology from University at Buffalo, where she was presented

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  • Rachel Gill

    Rachel Gill

    Dancer.

    Rachel Gill is from Muncie, Indiana. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance where she performed in works by Martha Graham, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker...

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  • Aria Roach

    Aria Roach

    Dancer.

    Raised in Vermont, Aria Roach graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with her BFA in Dance and Choreography...

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  • Bethany Chang

    Bethany Chang

    Dancer.

    Bethany Chang is a professional dancer and stretch therapist from Libertyville, IL. She received a B.A. in Dance and Film from Hofstra University where she performed works...

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  • gwen charles

    gwen charles

    Visual Artist.

    Multi-disciplinary artist gwen charles creates site-specific, collaborative live performances and choreographed actions for and with the camera...

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OUR HISTORY.

An all-female dance company, The Moving Architects has performed and taught extensively in academic, professional, and community settings throughout the NYC-area, East Coast, Midwest, and internationally in Central Asia, Guatemala, and Morocco.


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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Erin Carlisle Norton

Executive and Artistic Director

Jeremy Carlisle

President

Miro Dudik

Vice-President

Michael Norton

Treasurer/Secretary

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