Connecting people intimately to dance through community-based and collaborative projects
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Founded In 2007
The Moving Architects 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 and form, TMA is now a female-centric dance company known for creating highly visual, architectural, and innovative dance works. The company regularly collaborates with artists working in other artistic mediums in order to add multiple approaches, texture, imagery, depth, and nuance to the dance-based projects. Norton’s work is grounded in her physical research in Laban Movement Analysis, modern and postmodern academic dance studies, and improvisational study.
Female-Centric Dance Company
Who We Are
The Moving Architects is a dance organization that focuses on connecting people intimately to dance through community-based and collaborative projects and programming in the areas of performance, education, and public discourse. TMA constructs female-centric collaborative dance works and performance experiences; provides accessible movement education; shares stories and promotes dialogue through dance podcast interviews; and offers residencies, master classes, and community discussions in academic, professional, and community settings.
Authentic Complexity
Artistic Vision
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 collaborates regularly with artists working in the visual arts, multi-media, and sound.
Meet The Team
The Artists
Erin Carlisle Norton
Artistic Director.
Erin Carlisle Norton is a choreographer, dancer, movement educator, and Artistic Director of The Moving Architects...
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...
Ashley Peters
Dancer.
Ashley Peters, originally from Utica, New York, holds a BFA in Dance and a BA in Psychology from University at Buffalo...
Aria Roach
Dancer.
Aria Roach is a Vermont-raised, NYC-based dance artist. She holds a BFA in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts...
Indigo Sparks
Dancer.
Indigo Sparks is a performance artist and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. While completing her studies at University of the Arts...
Zoe Kaplan
Dancer.
Zoe Kaplan is a New York City-based dancer hailing from Coconut Creek, FL. In 2017, Zoe graduated with a B.F.A. in Modern Dance from Point Park University...
gwen charles
Visual Artist.
Multi-disciplinary artist gwen charles creates site-specific, collaborative live performances and choreographed actions for and with the camera...
Led By Erin Carlisle Norton
Our History
The Moving Architects, led by Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton, was founded in 2007 in Chicago, and is nonprofit female-centric dance company based in the NYC Metropolitan Area since 2013. TMA constructs female-centric collaborative dance works and performance experiences; provides accessible movement education; shares stories and promotes dialogue through dance podcast interviews; and offers residencies, master classes, and community discussions in academic, professional, and community settings. TMA has performed and taught across the United States and around the globe.