Mission
Surface Area Dance Theater is led by Creative Director Nicole Vivien Watson and resides at Dance City, the national agency for dance in the North East of England. Our company’s main focus is to develop an original movement language that is formed by building an identity, which reflects the creative inspirations of the company. This is achieved through intensive research and development periods, the presentation of work through live performance, cross art form collaborations and international exchanges.
Internationally the company has performed repertoire in Barcelona, Brussels, Sao Paulo - Brazil and Tokyo - Japan. Over the past two years Surface Area Dance Theatre has begun to form connections with cultural organisations within New York City, performing by invitation company repertoire at Brooklyn Arts Exchange - 2009 and Judson Memorial Church - 2010. In May this year Dust ( please visit our gallery to view Dust images ) was performed at La Mamma, NYC as part of the international festival La Mama Moves.
Surface Area Dance Theatre is recognised by audience members, supporters and larger cultural organisations as a company that explores new territory in dance and performance art, that we are adventurous, are open to new possibilities and understand the importance and benefit of cross art form collaborations. Our work is celebrated, as is our ambition to become a flag ship company for contemporary dance, while also having a presence nationally and internationally.
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