Founders AND DIRECTORS

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER: Charlotte Boye-Christensen, a native of Copenhagen, received her formal training in Copenhagen, London and New York.

Charlotte has created work on companies and institutions around the world, including for Danish Dance Theatre, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballet West, Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba (Performed at the International Cuban Dance Festival in Havana), The European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands, The National School for Performing Arts in Denmark, London Contemporary Dance School, Tisch in NYC, Princeton University, The Bauhaus in Germany, The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, The Alliance Francaise in Singapore, The New Opera House in Copenhagen, The Royal Danish Ballet School, the Bellas Artes International Choreography Competition in Mexico City, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, at universities across the US and more!

Charlotte was Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City for 11 years. In this time, she created 22 new works on the company and commissioned the work of renowned choreographers, including Wayne McGregor, John Jasperse, Bill T. Jones, Alicia Sanchez, Susan Marshall, Johannes Wieland, Karole Armitage and more. 

She toured with the company to 35 cities across the United States and facilitated residencies at Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona and more. 

In 2013 she founded NOW-ID with Nathan Webster and the company has so far created numerous productions/events/workshops, forged partnerships with local, national, international organizations and toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim.

Charlotte was the Associate Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University for four years. While there, she created a new BFA degree in dance with a focus on interdisciplinary performance and choreography. She got the degree NASD accredited in 2019 and recruited the first cohort of students in 2020. Charlotte was also brought in to direct the Dance Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for two years, as an Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Associate Professor, helping to refocus the Dance Curriculum, create partnerships with the Tech community in Seattle and move the Department from the historic Kerry Hall in Capitol Hill to the main campus located in South Lake Union.

Charlotte is the recipient of several awards and grants for her choreography, including awards from The National Foundation for the Arts in Denmark, Canada Council for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright, the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreographic Excellence, and more. 

Her personal website is: www.cbcnow.org

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: NATHAN WEBSTER has the capacity to make things happen, to manage and leverage diverse groups of people and excels at bringing ideas to an inspiring reality, and on timelines that vary from the world of art and performance to the long haul of making buildings, companies and community.

While he says he is from Vancouver, he is a Surrey boy at heart. Ha! Nathan studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal and in Grenoble, France before embarking on a professional career that has led to architectural practice based in British Columbia, Ontario, California, Utah and back. 

Nathan has a broad experience from some 25+ years in the field of architecture, coordinating diverse teams in multiple states and provinces to bring complex projects to reality on time and on budget. He is an excellent communicator experienced in design, project management and fund-raising. He has been a Pecha Kucha Night organizer and has collaborated on concepts, sets, props, marketing and so much more for several performances and installations with partner Charlotte Boye-Christensen. 

Beyond the practice of architecture, Nathan's extensive travels and engagement in art and design communities have nurtured the ability to see new and special opportunities for the fusion of life, depth and meaning into projects. As such, Nathan sees NOW-ID as a living, inspiring, sustainable project and story that will engage local, national and international creators and profoundly/positively impact the cultural community.