Founders AND DIRECTORS

Artistic Director: Charlotte Boye-Christensen

Charlotte is a Danish/American choreographer/educator/performer and the co-founder and Artistic Director of NOW-ID. She has created works for the Danish Dance Theatre, Singapore Dance Theatre, Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet West, Nashville Ballet, Ballet de Camagüey in Cuba, Princeton University, and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, among many others.

Charlotte directed the Dance Department and served as an Artist-in-Residence at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle from 2022 to 2024, and as Associate Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University from 2017 to 2021. While there, she created a new BFA degree in dance with a focus on interdisciplinary performance and choreography. Additionally, she served as the Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company for eleven years, creating 22 new works for the company and commissioning works from notable artists, including Wayne McGregor, Karole Armitage, Bill T. Jones, Alicia Sanchez, Susan Marshall and John Jasperse, among others. She toured with the company to 40 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.

Charlotte has led masterclasses and collaborated with renowned institutions, including the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands, the School for Performing Arts in Copenhagen, the Bauhaus Institute in Germany, the University of Texas, Texas Christian University, London Contemporary Dance School, The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, The Alliance Francaise in Singapore, Lasalle-Sia, College of the Arts in Singapore (where she was based for a year helping to shape the dance program), The Opera House in Copenhagen, Seoul International Dance Festival, The Royal Danish Ballet School, the Bellas Artes International Choreography Competition in Mexico City, and Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center, among others.  

Charlotte is the recipient of several awards and grants for her choreography, including grants 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 

Nathan 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.