About NobleMotion Dance

NobleMotion Dance (NMD), one of Texas’ premier dance companies, is recognized for their intense physicality and unique collaborations. NMD has been named Houston’s Best Dance Company by the Houston Press three times over, 2015, 2016, & 2019. Most notably, NMD was featured on the Emmy Award winning ABC TV show American Crime. NMD collaborated with Academy Award winner John Ridley to develop a four-minute contemporary dance work that was shown in its entirety on primetime TV and drew an audience viewership of 4 million. Other achievements include its inclusion on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster and graduation from the Houston Arts Alliance three-year Resident Incubator Program. The company received a Mid-America Arts Alliance Innovations Grant in 2017 for its collaboration with industrial designers. NMD has received over 50 positive reviews and been featured in articles from national critics including publications in Entertainment Weekly, Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, The Houston Chronicle, The Houston Press, and Arts+Culture. NobleMotion Dance was featured in The New York Times bestselling book, Dancers Among Us and the AAA Texas Journal as one of the dance companies helping to make Houston “The Big Apple of the South.”

Since the organization’s inception in 2009, NobleMotion Dance has collaborated with talented artists from a variety of disciplines, including light artists, technology designers, set designers, composers, actors, poets, and with organizations such as the Holocaust Museum Houston and the environmental agency Trash Bash. The company’s activities consist of producing evening length productions, touring and educational components, running an annual summer dance intensive, and directing its pre-professional company, NMD2. They have toured works and evening length productions to cities such as New York, Boston, Arizona, Dallas, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Amarillo, San Marcos, and Huntsville. Its artistic directors have also had their work commissioned by a number of companies including Repertory Dance Theater (Utah), Malashock Dance (San Diego), Urbanity (Boston), Dallas Black Dance Theater (Dallas) and Bruce Wood Dance Project (Dallas). Over the last decade plus, NMD’s programming has garnered national exposure and continues to serve as a vehicle for providing a high level of cultural excellence.

 

The company’s dance programming provides incredible opportunity for bringing together a diverse collection of artists and art-lovers in one place so that they may share and understand one another’s point of view on deep levels. Central to the company’s process is that all perspectives are valued, and we work as a team to build stories that feel representative of the collective whole. We aim to reduce barriers by inviting creatives from a variety of backgrounds to the table so that we may generate inclusive narratives that are greater than any one person. Our hope is that this way of working captures the attention of a wide range of viewers and turns a diverse population onto the power of dance.

 


NMD’s mission is to make work that is emotionally daring and honest; inspires discourse and understanding amongst diverse communities; and focuses on innovative collaborations in the arts and sciences with an emphasis on emerging technologies. By following this mission, NMD has become an integral and respected part of the Texas dance community. The primary goals of NobleMotion Dance include the following.

Building a Body of Work

Developing a creative body of work that is guided by the mission of NMD

Audience Engagement

Engaging audiences in various communities about the performing art of dance through touring, master classes, post show discussions, and open rehearsals

Keep Dancers Working

Providing work for professional dance artists through residency, teaching, and performance opportunities

Inventive Collaborations

Collaborating with other artists and agencies to broaden the impact of dance in our community

Educational Outreach

Offering teaching and choreographic residencies at festivals, colleges/universities, K-12 educational centers and other public or private settings

Well-managed Business

Create a clear legacy of talent, civic pride, and artistic accomplishments

What Sets Us Apart

NMD aspires to make distinctive work that is both satisfying to the most existential art minds while also being accessible and compelling to the general public. NMD strives to create a total theater experience. What makes us entirely unique is that a large component of our work integrates technology into live dance performances. This submerses the audience into new worlds, allowing them to see dance in a different way.

 

The work of NobleMotion Dance is relevant in that it establishes, cultivates, and promotes greater public appreciation of dance through the creation and performance of innovative dance works. The development of these dance works involves collaborative efforts of highly talented artists from a variety of disciplines. This process allows for a deeper level of engagement in the creative process and shared experience of problem solving. NobleMotion’s team of creators investigates current trends in technology and discovers ways to integrate the research into dance in a way that it connects both the art and the technology to the human condition.

The Company

Co-Artistic Directors
Andy Noble
Dionne Noble

Executive Director
Andy Noble

Director of Programming
Colette Kerwick

Administrative and Marketing Manager
Lauren Serrano

Resident Teacher Artist
Tyler Orcutt, MFA Dance
Brittany Deveau, MFA Dance
La’Rodney Freeman

Resident Lighting Designers/Technical Directors
Bryan Ealey
Jam Martinez

NMD2 Artistic Directors
Colette Kerwick, MFA Dance
Lauren Serrano, MFA Dance

Resident Photographer
Lynn Lane

Dancers
Wesley Cordova
Fiona Dorr
La’Rodney Freeman
Colette Kerwick
Lindsy McGill
Tyler Orcutt
Jacob Regan
Lauren Serrano
Joseph Stevens
Zane Unger
Angelica Villa
Dillion Bell, apprentice
Madeline Payne, apprentice

 

Board of Directors
David J Deveau – President
Nathan Perez – Treasurer
Dionne Sparkman Noble – Secretary
Carey Bell
Steven Bogard
Bryan Ealey
Dr. Joey Gutierrez

Andy Noble

"Pure entertainment from start to finish!" - from A&C's What We Loved & More, 2015

Claire Christine, Texas' Arts & Culture magazine

“Within Houston's world of contemporary dance, these are among the best dancers the community has to offer. Suffice to say, the dancing is topnotch.”

Neil Ellis Orts, Dance Source Houston

"Certain dances are like brilliant ruptures, and this one was without doubt the biggest of 2010"

Theodore Bale, Don't Miss List of 2011

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