Erin Carlisle Norton founded The Moving Architects on New Year's Day, 2007. As an artist she seeks to channel research of places, structures, their histories, and associated cultural transformations into choreography, exploring the embodiment of past and distant spaces in the heightened present of live performance.

Carlisle Norton takes a highly visual approach to choreography, assessing movement phrases based on their filmic as well as thematic properties. Her long-term creative partnership with composer/accompanist Ian Hatcher has led to "an unbroken string of potent, mysterious choreographies" (TimeOut Chicago, June 2011). The Moving Architects have taught and performed throughout the United States and recently completed a tour of Central Asia sponsored by The U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassies.

The company continues to research new projects in both community and international settings and explore the use of digital technologies as creative and conceptual tools. The 2011 work PLUCK was choreographed and set long-distance via Skype video-conferencing software, and research is ongoing in the use of technology in connection to cross-cultural distance teaching and performance projects.