Some moments from our recent production NEUROCEROS, which premiered in Vancouver last weekend. Thank you to @publicdesignvancouver for having us and to everyone who attended and supported the project, as well as our Board and donors!
This is the first iteration of a larger project, and it was exciting to see it come to life in this intimate setting with these beautiful Artists.
It made me so sad to hear about the passing of Shirley Ririe, but I remain incredibly grateful to have known her. I became friends with Shirley in 1999 when I created my first piece with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and we stayed close since then and throughout my years with the company. She was immensely supportive, insightful in her feedback, profoundly generous and I will miss her! A passionate advocate for the arts, she was not only a beautiful artist but also a generous mentor to me and many others. I continue to be in awe of the company and community that Shirley and Joan pioneered.
Thank you, Shirley, for being you!
Tickets for NOW-ID's NEUROCEROS! are on sale NOW... here!
Enjoy an intimate evening with three extraordinary performers, contemporary dance, live music and robust beverages at our first exploration of NEUROCEROS, a contemporary dance work inspired by Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros.
Thanks to Public Architecture and board member Brian Wakelin, we will now be hosting the event beneath their office at 1495 Frances St in Vancouver, BC.
Doors and BAR open at 6:30PM, with performers to start at 7:30PM. Space is limited so get your tickets soon!
Cast and Crew:
Choreographer: Charlotte Boye-Christensen with...
Dancers James Gnam and Tara McArthur
Composer / Musician: Jesper Egelund
Design: Nathan Webster
Lighting: Jack Chipman
Graphics: Will Fu
With special thanks to the NOW-ID Board members Brian Wakelin, Jana Tyner, Will Fu, Laura Hart Newlon
and Heidi Westfall.
THANK YOU to Anne Van Gelder, Gigi and David Arrington, Ty Dickerson and Hope Hornbeck, Jennifer Phillips and Ed Rawlings, and Stefanie Dykes as well as Koda Kultur, Art Music Denmark and the Danish Arts Foundation for supporting NOW-ID's NEUROCEROS!!!
Click here to support artistic innovation, collaboration and our exploration of the project's timely themes.
Inspired by Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play Rhinocéros* and designed to counter raw nerves rubbed wrongly in our own time, NEUROCEROS! will be a site-specific work in former brass foundry, warehouse and current music venue Industrial Garden at 236 Clark Avenue.
Doors and BAR open at 7PM, with performance to start at 8PM.
Cast and Crew:
Choreographer / Dancer: Charlotte Boye-Christensen with...
Dancers James Gnam and Tara McArthur
Composer / Musician: Jesper Egelund
Design: Nathan Webster
Lighting: Jack Chipman
Graphics: Will Fu
Bar: Industrial Garden
With special thanks to the NOW-ID Board members Brian Wakelin, Jana Tyner, Will Fu, Laura Hart Newlon
and Heidi Westfall.
Join Koda Kultur, Art Music Denmark and the Danish Arts Foundation to help foster artistic innovation and collaboration on the project’s timely themes by artists (including three dual citizens) from Canada, the United States and Denmark. Click here to support the project.
And lastly, we have a podcast!
The NOW NOW podcast is a forum for discussion of art, politics, and the creative act relative to our current, challenging political times.
Listen to the latest interview with our collaborator, Danish composer and musician Jesper Egelund.
Join NOW-ID in Vancouver this September for the company’s premiere of NEUROCEROS!
Inspired by Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play Rhinocéros* and designed to counter raw nerves rubbed wrongly by our own time’s twitching, grunting beast… three dancers and one composer/musician push through alienation arising with [wait...is this fascism!?] and you!
NEUROCEROS! will be a site-specific work in the former brass foundry, warehouse, and current music venue, Industrial Garden, located at 326 Clark Avenue. Doors and the bar open at 7 PM, with the performance starting at 8 PM.
Feeling at all alienated? Let's counter that and simultaneously help bring this project to reality. Support the project, the artists and the community! Donate any amount during the month of July and receive an invitation to a preview / meet the artists event over cocktails and Q&A at one of two VIP events leading up to the show!
Join Koda Kultur, Art Music Denmark and the Danish Arts Foundation to help foster artistic innovation and collaboration on the project’s timely themes by artists (including three dual citizens) from Canada, the United States and Denmark. Click here to learn more.
* Ionesco’s play Rhinocéros is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, responsibility, mass movements, mob mentality and morality. Over the course of the play, inhabitants of a rural village slowly turn into Rhinoceroses...
Cast and Crew:
Choreographer / Dancer: Charlotte Boye-Christensen with...
Dancers James Gnam and Tara McArthur
Composer / Musician: Jesper Egelund
Design: Nathan Webster
Lighting: Jack Chipman
Graphics: Will Fu
Bar: Industrial Garden
And more to come...
Welcome to this first edition of NOW NOW. We recorded this on Friday, June 13, 2025.
I am excited to welcome Mark Hofeling as our first guest. Mark is a production designer and art director who has designed and art-directed over 70 productions for film and television. Designing his first feature “Windrunner” in 1995, amongst his credits are The High School Musicals, Disney’s Zombies, and The Descendants. He has worked on locations all over the world, from Barcelona to Toronto and Atlanta. Mark is also incredibly prolific in his creativity, having written books, designed furniture, created figurines, and produced podcast content.
Mark is a perceptive and brilliant observer of political events, placing current events within a broader historical context. He is also just wickedly funny and smart, and may be able to help us navigate this current political moment.
You can listen to the podcast here.
I completed a choreographic residency in Bozeman, Montana, which took me to West Yellowstone National Park. Thank you to Raison d’être for the invitation.
Taught a series of masterclasses for Ballet West/Ballet West Academy.
Nick Cave performing at Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall in Vancouver.
I returned to Richmond, Virginia last month to create a new work for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Richmond. The work titled “ECHO” premiered a couple of weeks ago at the Modlin Center for the Arts in Richmond.
Congratulations to the cast and all of the wonderful artists involved.
Graphics by Kent Miller
This is a project that Nathan and I worked on for several months. More information at a later date.
Flashback Friday:
I thoroughly enjoyed teaching at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School when I was back in Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago. It is exciting to see the constant creative evolution of this institution.
Buchanan Courtyards (Photo by Nic Lehoux)
As part of NOW-ID's ongoing interview series Ne Plus Ultra that shares the stories of artists and designers creating extraordinary, inspiring and impactful work, I was delighted and honoured to interview and share the thoughts of Brian Wakelin.
Brian is an architect and co-founder of design firm Public Architecture, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Read the interview here.
I was so impressed and inspired by these beautiful young artists and thoroughly enjoyed working with them over these past two weeks. We premiered this new work CYCLIC last Thursday and Friday at the Rose Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake City.
Thank you and congratulations to Ballet West, Ballet West Academy and Artemotionusa!
Photos courtesy of Joshua Whitehead.
A new work - breath of ravens - that I created in collaboration with my students at Cornish College of the Arts. I have so much affection for this cast of beautiful artists and for the work we created together.
Photos courtesy of Joseph Lambert. Lighting by Trevor Cushman. Costumes by Carl Bronsdon.
#cornishcollegeofthearts #seattle #nickcave #ravens #nowidworks #cdt #thespinningsong
Returning to some of my favourite places in Mexico earlier this month was inspiring!
Having worked in Cholula/Puebla and in Mexico City over several years and having developed close friendships and collaborations with local artists, makes going back to all three places incredibly meaningful.
Thank you to our wonderful friends Carlos Arias and Rip Parker for hosting us so beautifully in Cholula.
Thank you to all who came to our production JCBC in downtown Salt Lake City on December 29th, 2023. Thank you also to our incredible team of artists, collaborators, board members and volunteers.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Friday, December 29, 2023
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
826 South 500 West suite 2, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Choreographer: Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Horns: Nathan Webster
Dancers: Tara McArthur and Bashaun Williams
Actual Musicians: Bret Jackson and Goran Strbac
Playmates: Aaron Nelson, Adam Day, Heidi Westfall, Hope Hornbeck, Marc Christensen, Portia Snow, Ty Dickerson, Susan Beck and MORE TO COME!
Space and things: Gary Vlasic / V-Project.
