Erin Carlisle Norton (she/her) is a two-time New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow whose work with The Moving Architects (TMA) has been presented across the United States and internationally in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan through the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassies, as well as throughout Morocco and Guatemala. Her choreography has been presented at venues such NYC-area BAM Fisher, Bryant Park Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Arts on Site, Performance Mix Festival, Spring Break Art Fair, Ramapo College, and SOPAC, alongside nationally at Links Hall (Chicago), The Dance Complex (Boston), Dance Alloy Theater (PA), Columbus Dance Theater (OH), The Performance Garage (Philadelphia), and 21C Museum Hotel (KY), among many others. Her dance film projects have been featured at festivals including Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, the Seoul International Dance Film Festival, the Dance on Film Fest at Grounds for Sculpture, with the company part of a collaborative project Shapes of Movement, a multi-year transdisciplinary initiative with Crystal Gregory (visual artist), Kathy Imlay (producer), and gwen charles (multi-disciplinary artist) spanning Kentucky, North Carolina, and Washington State. Her most recent work Where She Once Stood, a site-responsive project at the Crane House and Historic YWCA in Montclair, NJ, was supported by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. She has been an artist-in-residence at Dancewave (as its inaugural resident artist), Wilson College, High Concept Laboratories, The Iron Factory, MOtiVE Brooklyn, MANA Contemporary through the Monira Foundation, the In 7 Experimental Film Residency, and Cedar Crest College/LVDE, with her creative work supported through an array of residencies and institutional partnerships.
As a performer, educator, and movement specialist, Erin has taught courses at The Ohio State University and Beloit College and has served as a guest artist in programs at Cedar Crest College, University of Kentucky, University of Wisconsin, Kenyon College, University of Chicago, Gibney, and DanceBarn, among numerous studios, colleges, and community organizations nationally. She is the owner and instructor of Align Pilates, integrating her diverse movement and somatic practices into her teaching to meet clients’ needs, and continues to teach as a guest artist in various capacities.
Erin is the host and producer of the long-running, popular podcast series Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast, nominated for a Women in Podcasting Award. She previously led TMA’s pay-what-you-can Community Movement Project in Northern New Jersey and continues to teach workshops for local adult community dancers. Erin served as Executive Director of Dance New Jersey, the statewide service organization for dance, and was selected for the Dance/USA Institute for Leadership in Dance. As a graduate student at Ohio State University, she received the OSU International Award for Visual and Performing Arts, the Marianna Russell Technology Scholarship, the Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant, and multiple departmental SFI Grants.
Erin holds a BFA and MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, as well as a graduate-level Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis (GLCMA) from Columbia College Chicago, and is a certified Pilates and Barre Instructor.
