NG Artistic Ensemble
BIO
Noa Greenfeld is a valuable part of her community as a dancer, teacher, choreographer. She graduated from the University of Illinois in May 2023 with a BFA in Dance with a Minor in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism and her 200-hour Yoga certification. On campus, Noa is a James Honors Scholar; the Events Coordinator for Block I, the football student athletic board; and a Fine and Applied Arts Ambassador. Within Dance at Illinois, she has studied modern techniques, ballet, African Diasporic dance forms, and composition with Sara Hook, Kemal C. Nance, Tere O’Connor, Linda Lehovec, Roxane D’Orleans Juste, and Sarah Marks Mininsohn. In her senior year, she researched personal value systems in dance and how they affect a dancer’s movement practices. Closer to her hometown of Elgin, IL, she is a Mission Ambassador for Dancing for Dancers, a Chicago-based organization that provides scholarships for dancers. She became involved with the organization in 2021 after receiving two scholarships. She has taught dance in the Chicagoland area since 2019. In the fall, Greenfeld will be teaching ballet and yoga at Dixon Dance Academy.
NG Artistic Ensemble
The NG Artistic Ensemble LLC is a woman-owned business encompassing dance performance, choreography, and teaching. Greenfeld is currently based in Chicago. She believes in the power of community and uses ballet, yoga, and contemporary dance to help train dancers with healthy habits and mindfulness. She aims to empower dancers to create a more connected and meaningful experience with others and themselves by teaching from a holistic point of view which includes anatomy, terminology, and history. In her own practice, Greenfeld utilizes yoga to practice being present in her everyday life and utilizes dance as an outlet to gain support from her peers. You can find her taking class, attending shows, and supporting fellow artists.
Artist Statement
(In Continuous Process)
My work does not pressure, it allows space. Space for growth to guide movers through their own experiences in lived, intentional work. The movement travels in space, shifting in and out of full-bodied group unison moments and individual self-study punctuated by detailed gestural motifs. Dynamic shifts are created through the additional use of flow, dynamic weight drops, and traveling patterns. Surface-level phrasing that is natural to dancers is left behind and is traded with space to play with the self.
My work plays with value systems to examine movement patterns that may be difficult to execute based on past movement experiences such as moving softly when we are used to being sharp or exploding into movement when we are used to containing ourselves. I experiment with disorientation in familiar spaces to become consciously aware of our habits. In this mindset, we can find quietness inside of ourselves to intentionally connect with our core values while leaving behind unhelpful values that have been inflicted upon us by others.