About - The Moving Architects

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

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Caitlin Bailey
Dancer.
Bailey is a dancer and visual artist who trained in dance at Marymount Manhattan College before receiving her BA in Dance from Hunter College. Bailey has recently performed at Spoke the Hub with Amaris Dance...

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Jenny Gram
Dancer.
Jenny Gram, originally from Santa Clara, California, holds a BFA in dance and a BA in English from the University of Iowa. While a student, she performed the work of Carl Flink, Jennifer Kayle...

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Maggie Beutner
Dancer.
Maggie Beutner is a performer, teacher, and choreographer from Denton, Texas. She attended the University of North Texas and graduated with a BFA in Dance, Magna Cum Laude.

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Lela Groom
Dancer.
Seattle grown, Brooklyn based, Léla Groom received her early training from the Preparatory Dance Program at Cornish College for the Arts, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance…

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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 an Award of Distinction in Research for her thesis regarding the history and applications of jazz dance. As a freelance artist...

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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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