NobleMotion Dance

NobleMotion Dance (NMD), one of Texas’s premier dance companies, is recognized for their intense physicality, unique collaborations, and jaw-dropping performances. Since the organization’s inception in 2009, NMD has collaborated with talented experts from a variety of disciplines including neuroscience, artificial intelligence, technology, and industrial design; composers and musicians; light and set artists; photographers, actors, and poets. 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 dance that was shown in its entirety on primetime TV and drew an audience viewership of 4 million. In 2015, 2016, and 2019, Houston Press named NMD “Houston’s Best Dance Company” following sold out performances at Houston’s downtown performance venue The Hobby Center. The company was awarded the Mid-America Arts Alliance Innovations Grant for its collaboration with industrial designers. Other accolades include over 50 positive reviews from national critics including publications in Entertainment Weekly, Dance Magazine, Dance Informa, and The Houston Chronicle. NMD was also featured in the New York Times Bestselling book Dancers Among Us.

NMD’s programming extends beyond the stage and includes residencies /workshops, NMD+ community classes, annual Winter and Summer Dance Intensives, and the direction of its pre-professional mentorship program, NMD2. They have toured to Italy, New York, Washington, DC, Boston, Arizona, Dallas, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Amarillo, San Marcos, and Huntsville and peerformed at prestigious locations such as Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center. NMD’s mission is to make work that is emotionally daring and honest; inspires discourse and understanding amongst diverse communities; and integrates dance, theater, and technology in innovative ways. NMD’s goals are to create a premiere dance company, a well-managed business, and a clear legacy of talent, civic pride, and artistic accomplishment.