Visit Our The Moving Architects Teen Summer Dance Intensive Website
Erin Carlisle Norton, Director, 312-343-2840
erin[AT]themovingarchitects.org
46 Park Street
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
CAMPER AGES: 14-18
TYPE OF CAMP: Day Camp. July 18-22, 2022; Monday-Thursday: 9:30am-3:00pm; Friday: 9:30am-5:00pm
BRIEF CAMP DESCRIPTION: The Moving Architects Summer Teen Dance Intensive is a creative, collaborative, and dynamic week of dance with the professional dance company The Moving Architects. This dance intensive focuses on developing the individual voice of each dancer through the combination of movement classes and multi-faceted approaches to choreography and performance. Daily classes will include Pilates/Somatics, Modern Technique, Topics in Dance, and New Choreography, led by award-winning Artistic Director of The Moving Architects Erin Carlisle Norton with guest artists and professional NYC-based company dancers.
CAMP INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES OFFERED:
Dance, and more.
CAMP PROGRAM INFO: More about the Artistic Director: Erin Carlisle Norton (she/her)
is a choreographer, dancer, movement educator, administrator, and Artistic Director of The Moving Architects
(TMA), an all-female dance company and nonprofit organization based in NJ/NYC. With a movement vocabulary that emphasizes charged movement and feminine strength, Norton’s choreographic work links design and form to movement and space, often incorporating interactive costuming/props. TMA has a dynamic history of teaching, performing, creating, and touring regionally, nationally, and internationally, presented through company performance and teaching tours to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with the US Department of State and US Embassies, Morocco, and Guatemala, and widely at dozens of traditional and
unconventional venues including NYC’s BAM Fisher, Bryant Park Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Performance Mix Festival, Spring Break Art Fair, Ramapo College, The Dance Complex (Boston), Point Park University (PA), Columbus Dance Theater (OH), and
21C Museum Hotel (KY) among others. Erin has taught dance courses at The Ohio State University and Beloit College, and has enjoyed guest artist positions at dance studios, community centers, and universities including Valley Day School (PA), Kenyon College (OH), Pomerene Arts Center (OH), University of Chicago, and Gibney (NYC). Erin’s work has been supported by creative residencies including yearly at Wilson College (PA),
Dancewave as the first artist-in-residence (Brooklyn), and currently at MOtiVE Brooklyn. Receiving numerous awards and fellowships, she was selected for the 2021 Dance/USA Institute for Leadership in Dance and received a 2014 and 2020 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreographic Fellowship.
Erin has a BFA and MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, a Graduate-level Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago (GLCMA), and is a Certified Pilates and Barre Instructor. She currently leads the company’s pay-what-you-can movement program Community Movement Project in Northern NJ, and hosts and produces the company’s semi-monthly dance interview podcast Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast. Erin is also the Executive Director of Dance New Jersey, the statewide service organization for dance and dance education.
CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: Financial assistance available
OTHER CAMP INFO: The Moving Architects Summer Teen Dance Intensive program is designed for teens entering 9-12 grade with at least 3 years of modern dance and/or ballet training. For more information and to
register, please go to: Our Camp Website Link: themovingarchitects.org. For questions: Erin Carlisle Norton, Artistic Director, erin[AT]themovingarchitects.org
CAMP SESSION DATES & FEES:
July 18-22, 2022; 9:30am-3:00pm
Tuition: $475
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