Newport Contemporary Ballet

Newport Contemporary Ballet (formerly known as IslandMovingCo) is a non-profit, professional, contemporary ballet company with a long history of enriching the cultural fabric of communities throughout Rhode Island, the region, and the world. The company creates and presents, relevant, visceral, and engaging dance works by a diverse group of the worlds’ leading choreographers and collaborating artists.  In addition to works created for traditional stages, NCB is widely known for its unique approach to experiential and site- specific performances.

Our Mission: Newport Contemporary Ballet engages bodies, hearts and minds through dynamic and thought-provoking performance, transformative dance education, and deep community connection.

The Company is committed to provide a platform for the development and performance of new choreography, and has commissioned over 70 new dances, from modern and contemporary ballet choreographers. Over a dozen musical scores have been commissioned and the Company has collaborated with visual artists, actors and poets on original productions presented as part of our main-stage and Family Series productions.

NCB's 13 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, “IsNCB (formerly 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.”

The company has received numerous grants and commissions from individuals and foundations including the National Endowment for The Arts, NEFA, Meet the Composer, the US Consulate for Kazakhstan & Italy and the RI State Council on the Arts.

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.