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Updated 11/30/2022

Subcircle

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Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

In 2014 Scott McPheeters, with Niki and Jorge Cousineau bought the old Shamrock Farm on Guinea Road in Biddeford, Maine to create an artists residency. Subcircle, founded in 1999, by Niki and Jorge, is a performance and installation company, formerly based in Philadelphia until relocating to Biddeford, Maine in 2021.Subcircle’s work transforms theatrical and site-specific spaces, merging dance, sound, set design, lighting and film. Whether site-specific or performance for the stage, the work aims to convey to audience and performer alike – an inseparability of performance from environment. With collaboration at its core, the company has worked with choreographer/director Carol Brown (London/New Zealand), composer Toby Twining, actor Geoff Sobelle, choreographers Darla Stanley and Gin MacCallum among others. Some of their works include Vesper (2022), Hold Still While I figure this out (2016) Thine Eyes (2013),  Only Sleeping (2010),  SEED (2011) and Still unknown (2006). Eight years ago, choreographer and performer Scott McPheeters joined the Cousineau’s as a co-director and together they expanded the company’s mission to include Subcircle Residency - to give artists space and time for creative dreaming. After fundraising for four years, they were able to renovate the barn to house a beautiful studio and invite their first artists in residence in 2019. 

 

 

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Niki Cousineau
Job Title: Co-Director
Phone: 267-269-1449
Address:
97 Guinea Road
Biddeford, ME 04005

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1999

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

1999

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Film Showings
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
  • Exhibitions
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 10

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Biddeford Cultural Coalition

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Biddeford Cultural Coalition

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Network

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Designated Arts Community:

  • New England Cohort Member - New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • New England Cohort Member - RDDI: New England Now Artist Cohort