
- delivers transformative experiences through high quality, intimate live performances,
- offers engaging educational programs to spark new ways of learning,
- hosts Newport's only professional dance school - Newport Academy of Ballet - offering classes for students age 3 to adult
IMC’s 12 professional dancers are remarkable for their intelligence and adventurous spirit. In recent years, the dancers have worked with 20 choreographers and premiered work in Newport, Boston, Providence, New York and Los Angeles as well as international tours to Kazakhstan and Italy. Lewis Segal of the LA Times observed, “Island Moving Co. secured its reputation for fusing conceptual risk with technical prowess.” In New York, Attitude Magazine called IMC “a refreshing combination of grassroots camaraderie and big city technique…a group of working dancers going for broke.”
In addition to its main-stage productions, IMC is known for its site-specific and adaptive staging of performances in iconic and non-traditional settings such as Belcourt Castle, Rosecliff Mansion and the Tall Ship- H/V Oliver Hazzard Perry.