No-one's Watching

A physical theatre company creating imaginative movement-driven work for stage and screen.

We move through life, dance like no-one’s watching, and reveal story with our every move.

No-One’s Watching is a physical theatre company based in Port Moody, BC, led by director, choreographer, and movement coach Cydney Uffindell-Phillips.

The company creates original productions and reimagines existing plays and musicals through a highly physical, movement-driven approach. With an emphasis on ensemble storytelling, visual composition, and embodied performance, No-One’s Watching explores the intersection of theatre, dance, and cinematic language.

Our work blends physical theatre, devised process, dance, and music — often drawing from Cydney’s ARC of Motion methodology — to create performances that are emotionally resonant, visually striking, and deeply human.

We develop both new works and bold reinterpretations, collaborating with performers, designers, and composers to explore stories through a multidisciplinary lens.

“As humans we are storytelling machines. Our body language is constantly projecting a story. The story of who we are; how we control the world around us; who we want to be; and often a story that reveals our inner conflict, displaying our hidden fears and desires. On a more structural level are our movement patterns. Similar to our body language, there are elements of our movement patterns that we are aware of (such as restrictions due to pain or injury), and there are some that are rooted so deeply in our subconscious we have no awareness of them. These are the habits and rituals that we have absorbed from our experiences. The way we move is defined by the cultural influences in our lives, and the way we have responded to them. As we move we broadcast our identity, our values, beliefs and emotions. Our tribal self also reads stories in our surroundings. We identify synchronicity and patterns in our environment and use it to establish story. These responses to our environment can provoke heightened emotional experiences as we see the world through a filtered lens. Embracing movement to explore an individual’s story of themselves and their environment can allow us to tune into a powerful element of the psyche. It can be used to heighten, stylize, synchronize, restrict, or normalize the physical narrative. We move through life, dance like no-one’s watching, and reveal story with our every move.”

— Cydney Uffindell-Phillips.