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Upcoming Shows / Call for Proposals / Ongoing Projects / Workshops / Company Class

Erin Carlisle Norton MFA Project: TWO WORLDS
with work also by Ann Sofie Clemmeson, Joyelle Fobbs, and Jennifer Meckley
Columbus, OH
February 7-9, 2013

BalletMet Performance Space
http://dance.osu.edu/events

Performers: Ellie Escosa Carter and Jill Guyton Nee
Live Music: Ian Hatcher
Costumes: Erin Carlisle Norton

The Moving Architects presents WORLDING
with Guest Artists Noa Zuk (Israel) and Joanie Audet (French Canada)
Chicago, IL

Saturday, March 9 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 10 @ 7pm
Monday, March 11: Gaga Master Class (info)

Fasseas White Box Theater at The Drucker Center
1535 North Dayton Street
Chicago, IL

Featuring work by The Moving Architects' Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton of Chicago, Worlding is an evening of dance works from global perspectives, with international guest artists Noa Zuk of Israel and Joanie Audet of Quebec. Worlding is the company's first multi-culturally focused performance event; promising charged, surprising, whimsical, and unyielding dance.

Choreographers: Erin Carlisle Norton (Chicago), Noa Zuk (Israel), and Joanie Audet (Quebec)
Company Members: Allison Anich, Sarah Gonsiorowski, Alyssa Gregory, Angela Luem, Amanda Timm, Laura Vinci de Vanegas (rehearsal director), Ian Hatcher (composer/sound designer)
Guest Dancers: Joanie Audet, Arial Freedman, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Andrew Hartley, Noa Zuk
Lighting Designer/Stage Manager: Francesca Bourgault

General Admission: $15
Students/Seniors: $12

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Worlding is supported in part by the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Cliff Dweller's Art Foundation, multiple individual research grants, and many generous individuals.

LONELAND and TMA-Curated Performances at THAW
Links Hall Annual Fundraiser March 21, 2013, 6:30-11:30pm

DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N. Wester Avenue
Chicago, IL
Tickets: $30

* The Moving Architects is currently seeking proposals by choreographers and performance artists for THAW 2013, Links Hall's benefit extravaganza. More info here. *

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Past events:

Master Class and Airings and Sharings
Chicago, IL
October 27, 2012

Visceral Dance Center
2820 N. Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
4-5:30 - Gaga Master Class
5:45-7:00 - Airings and Sharings: A Works-in-Progress Series with The Moving Architects and Noa Zuk

Tickets: $20/class, $10/showing with reception

Airings and Sharings is an ongoing works-in-progress series established in 2008 by The Moving Architects and designed as a forum to share and dialogue about the company's new choreographic and creative projects. In this installment, Zuk and Carlisle Norton will discuss making work in a global context: Zuk will discuss her work as an Israeli artist and Carlisle Norton will show segments of her new works "Worlding" and "Intersect", inspired by working in cross-cultural contexts. Both artists will also share videos regarding choreographic research and performance projects. This showing is precursor for The Moving Architects and Zuk partnership for dance performances in Chicago in March 2013.

Noa Zuk began dancing with the Batsheva Ensemble in 1997. In 2000, she joined the Batsheva Dance Company (BDC) where she performed until 2009. During her time with BDC, she also began choreographing her own work. Among her early pieces are O.M.S., A Droom Come Tree and the trio Boxerman, which was performed by members of the Batsheva Ensemble in New York City. Her collaboration with interdisciplinary artist, Ohad Fishof on the video dance One More Song was presented in Israel and abroad. In 2010, she was awarded The Schusterman Foundation Visiting Artist Scholarship and spent three months in residency at The Ohio State University in the United States. Her recent work, Speaker (trio version), premiered in Israel's annual event International Exposure as part of the Curtain Up series in 2011. In 2012, her new creation for Bern Ballet premiered in Switzerland and she was also selected as one of ten finalists to present her work in the 5th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. She has been invited to return as an artist in residence for the fall semester 2012 at The Ohio State University. Noa is also a teacher of Ohad Naharin's Gaga Movement Language.

Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, featuring The Moving Architects
Chicago, IL
October 7, 2012

Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival
Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610

Tickets: $25 (discounts available for seniors, students, and military with ID)

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Action Danse 5
Oujda, Casablanca, and Marrakesh, Morocco
September 10-27, 2012

Workshops to be held with women's associations in local communities and at dance centers, alongside collaborative projects and performances with professional dancers.

Info: fleurdorange-maroc.net

Erin's research for this project is funded by the Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant.

Danceforms' 58th International Choreographers' Showcase
Guatemala City, Guatemala
June 19-26, 2012

Performances presented at Body Arts and Central Cultural "Miguel Angel Asurias"
http://www.danceformsproductions.com/guatemal.html

Master Classes at Ballet Moderno y Folklórico de Guatemala, Dance Department at the Escuela Superior de Artes de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and Arte Centro Graciela Andrade de Paiz.

Erin Carlisle Norton is funded by The Ohio State University 2012 International Award for Visual/Performing Arts, the Presutti-Madison Memorial Dance Fund, and a Marianna Russell Technology Grant.

AIRINGS AND SHARINGS: embodied and embedded 2012
The Moving Architects online works-in-progress film series

vimeo.com/themovingarchitects

Pryings

"Every Acconci in the Video Data Bank" is a collaborative project by Alicia Chester and Andrea Slavik to remake every Vito Acconci video in the collection of the Video Data Bank. They are working with mostly Chicago-based female artists, including Erin Carlisle Norton, Artistic Director of The Moving Architects with "Pryings". The videos are shot in full HD at 30 frames per second using a Canon EOS 7D and are compressed for upload to Vimeo. The main repository for the project is this blog: http://everyacconci.wordpress.com

Seeking performers for THAW: Links Hall Annual Fundraiser
Proposal Deadline: December 10, 5pm

March 21, 2013
DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
4740 N. Wester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
6:30-11:30pm, $30

The Moving Architects is currently accepting proposals by choreographers and performance artists for THAW 2013, Links Hall's Benefit extravaganza. We are looking for approximately 15-20 eclectic, energetic, and/or compelling dances (8-10 minute max) for this gigantic celebration and fundraiser. Multiple performances will be happening simultaneously throughout the evening. We are interested in a variety of performance elements and mediums, including audience interaction, group dances, interdisciplinary works, burlesque, and dance films.

ALL PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE:

1. A clear and detailed description of the proposed work
2. Artist bio and contact information, including a list of choreographed works and dates performed
3. A link (if available, though highly encouraged) to proposed work, past work, or rehearsal footage
4. This opportunity is for emerging and/or under produced artists—please write about why you fall into one
   of these categories, perhaps discussing your artistic concerns and/or point of view

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 10th, 5pm

Please send proposals to TMA Artist Contact, Alyssa Gregory at tmathaw2012@gmail.com

Gaga Master Class with Noa Zuk
Visceral Dance Center, Chicago IL

Monday, March 11, 2013 @ 2-3:30pm at Visceral Dance Center
Class: $20, $15 if class is reserved show nights @ Worlding Box Office
Purchase Online: visceraldance.com

Master Class
Feverhead (http://feverhead.com)

1199 Goodale Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43212
January 2013

More info TBA

Coming soon. Please check back for updates or join our email list.

The Moving Architects / Collaborators / Board of Directors

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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. As an artist she seeks to channel research of places, structures, their histories, and associated cultural transformations into choreography, exploring the embodiment of past and distant spaces in the heightened present of live performance.

Drawing from her training in Laban Movement Analysis and academic dance studies, Carlisle Norton takes a highly visual approach to choreography, assessing movement phrases based on their filmic as well as thematic properties. Her long-term creative partnership with composer/accompanist Ian Hatcher has led to "an unbroken string of potent, mysterious choreographies" (TimeOut Chicago, June 2011).

The Moving Architects have taught and performed throughout the United States. In March 2011, the company completed a tour of Central Asia sponsored by The U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassies. In 2012 the company had a short residency as part of Tercer Festival Internacional de Danze Antigua, Guatemala City, and Norton was invited to teach and perform throughout Morocco with Association D'Fleur's Action 5 Dans Festival and sponsorship by the U.S. Embassy.

The company continues to research new projects in both community and international settings and explore the use of digital technologies as creative and conceptual tools. This has led Norton to research choreographic methods that look at 'distance' both virtually and culturally. The 2011 work PLUCK was choreographed and set long-distance via Skype video-conferencing software, and research is ongoing in the use of technology in connection to cross-cultural distance teaching, performance, and choreography projects.

Erin Carlisle Norton
Artistic Director
Erin holds a BFA in Dance with honors and distinction from The Ohio State University, a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis (CMA) from Columbia College Chicago, Pilates Certification, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at Ohio State. Her choreography has been presented throughout the Midwest and East Coast, notably at Links Hall (Chicago); Wilson College (PA); and Chez Bushwick (NYC); and in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as part of a US Embassy/Department of State PAI Teaching and Performance Tour in March 2011. Erin has taught at dance studios throughout Chicago and Columbus, OH and as guest artist at University of Chicago, Western Michigan University, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Wilson College, and Beloit College. She has received multiple individual grants from the Chicago Cultural Center CAAP Grant and The Illinois Arts Council, Columbus Dances Fellowship 2011, and is curator for Links Hall's Artistic Associates program 2011-2012. Erin's choreographic and graduate research is focused on distance learning that includes international teaching and cross-cultural exchange through technologies. Erin is currently a Graduate Assistant for Bebe Miller at OSU, assisting with her performance project History and Dance Fort online company archive.

Ian Hatcher
Composer, Sound Designer, Accompanist
Ian Hatcher is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and programmer. He has been composing music for the Moving Architects and performing with the company since 2008. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brown University, and now lives in NYC. Info/projects: clearblock.net

Sarah Gonsiorowski
Dancer
Sarah received her early training from the Milwaukee Ballet School and graduated from The University of Iowa with a BFA in Dance and BA in English. At UI she was a member of the department's touring company and performed throughout the mid-west and Puebla, Mexico at the Universidad de las Americas. She is currently a performing artist and collaborator with the Danceworks Performance Company and as an educational outreach instructor. She has choreographed for Milwaukee's Danceworks Performance Company, First Stage Children's Theater, and Danceworks' DanceLAB series.

Alyssa Gregory
Dancer
Alyssa Gregory received her BFA in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. During her time at VCU she had the privilege of working with Tania Issac, Melanie Richards, Scott Putman, Amaranth Contemporary Dance Company and was in the Urban Bush Women reconstruction of Shelter. She also choreographed and presented in numerous student concerts at VCU and received the 2010 VCU Arts Undergraduate Research Grant. Outside of VCU she worked closely in Richmond with We Are Artists choreographers Autumn Proctor and Shannon Bramham. Alyssa currently teaches dance classes in Chicago.

Angela Luem
Dancer
Angela Luem received her BFA from Southern Methodist University in Dance Performance and upon graduation immediately moved to New York City where she worked as a "pick up" dancer for eight years. In New York she worked with such notables as Mark Dendy, Linda Diamond, Steele Dance and Dance Anonymous. She then moved to Mexico City where she worked with Tania Perez-Salas Co. de Danza for three years performing at such notable venues as Jacob's Pillow (Becket, MA); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA); Touhill Performing Arts Center (St. Louis, MO); Galway Arts Festival (IR); Cairo Opera House (Egypt); Suzanne Delal Center, and Bellas Arts. While on tour with TPS, she taught master classes in contemporary ballet and company repertoire. She has taught ballet at Queens College and creative movement in Head Start and other community programs throughout the US. In 2009 Angela moved to Chicago to pursue a Masters Degree in Arts Management. Currently she works at Pentacle as an Artist Representative and Help Desk/Chicago coordinator.

Amanda Timm
Dancer
Amanda started her modern dance training in Minneapolis, MN at Perpich Center for Arts Education: The Arts High School. She graduated with her BFA in choreography from Columbia College Chicago in 2009 and founded We Stand Sideways, a small pick up company in Chicago. Amanda has created a repertoire of works for her company as well as choreographing for plays, routines for a magician, and for local pop band, The Embraceables. Amanda has also performed in works by Chicago choreographers Lisa Gonzales, Rachel Damon with Synapse Arts, and Annie Beserra with Striding Lion.

Laura Vinci de Vanegas
Dancer
Laura Vinci de Vanegas began her formal dance training in Boston, MA and graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in dance from The Ohio State University. Upon graduation, Laura moved to Guatemala and worked for Camino Seguro/Safe Passage, teaching dance workshops for children and studying Latin dance forms. As a choreographer, she has presented her work at International Dance Festivals in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Tegucigalpa, Honduras and worked as an adventure guide. Laura currently teaches ballet, modern, and jazz dance classes at various studios throughout Chicago.

Andrea Slavik
Filmmaker
Andrea Slavik is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in film, video and installation. She has curated and exhibited at various galleries and venues in Canada and the US. Most recently, she has been making experimental documentary videos that take an anthropologic and artistic interest in built environments. She has studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Francesca Bourgault
Lighting Designer
Francesca Bourgault graduated high school from the Interlochen Arts Academy and attended Western Michigan University where she completed a BA in dance with an emphasis in dance lighting design and a minor in general business. Following graduation, Francesca held a production internship at the American Dance Festival. After moving to Chicago in January, 2009, she began lighting dance in the Chicagoland area. Some of her favorite companies and choreographers include Winifred Haun and Dancers, The Academy of Movement and Music, Art Intercepts, Esoteric Dance Project, The Chicago Tap Theatre, The Humans, Julia Rae Antonick, Erica Mott, and The Moving Architects. Francesca is the technical director at Links Hall and a dance instructor for Design Dance at Chase Park. Francesca has been working with TMA since June 2009's Stops on the Line. francescabourgault.webs.com

Viv Woodland
Stage Manager and Master Electrician
Viv has stage managed theater, dance, and mixed-media performances at venues both spacious and intimate. Highlights include traveling with Kathy Hardy Gray Dance Theatre to share dance with elementary students in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and stage managing Carmen for movement-based Synetic Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When not calling shows, Viv is an electrician, stage hand, and light board operator for Chicago area theaters. She holds degrees from Penn State and George Mason Universities, and was trained in stagecraft at Totem Pole Playhouse in Caledonia, PA. Viv has been working with TMA since June 2009's premiere of Stops On The Line.

Erin Carlisle Norton
Executive and Artistic Director

Linda Solotaire
President

Edward Karlin
Vice-President

Donna Goldman
Treasurer/Secretary

Jennifer Thornton
Board Member