Founded in 1999, by Niki and Jorge Cousineau, 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. Subcircle is interested in ways of taking things out of their normal context – placing them differently, slightly skewed or distorted. It is through this process that the goal remains – to test people’s ideas of where they see dance and theater, how and most importantly, why; and while doing so challenging them to be more than a passive audience member. In 2014 choreographer and performer Scott McPheeters joined the Cousineaus as a co-director. Along with their artistic work in Philadelphia, together they purchased a farm in Biddeford Maine which they have developed into an artists’ residency and retreat center which opened in 2019.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 Just Between Me (2001), Crevice (2003), Somewhere Close to Now (2005), Only Sleeping (2010) and SEED (2011). Subcircle’s work has been performed throughout Germany in Potsdam, Berlin, Dresden and Broellin. In Philadelphia- DanceBoom, the nEW Festival, FringeArts, the Annenberg’s By Local series and thirdbird’s Blindspot; In Maine at Mechanic’s Hall in Portland, Engine and Pepperell Mills in Biddeford; at Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC, and at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. Subcircle’s dance films have been presented by the Michener Museum,  WHYY, PDP’s Motion Pictures, Dances made to Order and the Oscillation Transia Film Festival.