Image taken from above. MELT Summer 2023 Workshop taught by Joanna Kotze at Judson Memorial Church. Dancers lie on their backs with arms spread out. One leg is also extended out as the other seems to be in motion bending at the knee and floating of the ground. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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A leading laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms.

Valuing the individual artist, their creative process and their vital role within society, Movement Research is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation.

Artist Opportunities:

MR AIR Application | OPEN NOW through Mar 18

AoCC – At Capacity Application | OPEN NOW through Mar 14

 

 

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What's upcoming at Movement Research

Category: Events

Movement Research at Judson Church | March 17, 2025

Elliot Reza Emadian, DaEun Jung, Ke’ron J. Wilson

Mon, Mar 17, 2025

John Jasperse work featuring five dancers dressed in black dresses. Three dancers lay on the floor knees to one side and back flat to the ground while they gesture and touch their hands to their faces. Two dancers in the center balance on one leg with their torsos leaning diagonally off their center. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Workshop

SEED BOMBS

Daria Faïn

Mon, Mar 17 - Jun 16, 2025

Screenshot from Sky’s Valves cinematography by Alex Romania: a duet by Daria Faïn and Melanie Maar. On a yellow fabric, one body made of two creates an ongoing sacred geometry with bare legs; the rest of the bodies are covered with a white and gray fabric.
Category: Events

Movement Research at Judson Church | March 24, 2025

cove barton and felix bryan, Mariam Dingilian, Aparna Shankar

Mon, Mar 24, 2025

angel shanel edward's work for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Two dancers moving and placed diagonally from each other. In the foreground one dancer lunges away from the camera with arms extended upwards and sideways. Upstage the second dancers stands with one arm swinging across their torso. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Featured

A red graphic with Summer MELT dates. Jul 7 through Aug 1.
Type of postWorkshops

Summer MELT

Early bird discount is available from March 10 through April 21. Use the discount code 'MELTearlybird' for 20% off!

Events
John Jasperse work featuring five dancers dressed in black dresses. Three dancers lay on the floor knees to one side and back flat to the ground while they gesture and touch their hands to their faces. Two dancers in the center balance on one leg with their torsos leaning diagonally off their center. Photo by Rachel Keane.

Movement Research at Judson Church | March 17, 2025

Type of postArtist Opportunities and Programs
A photo of the new studio at 122CC. An empty studio with grey marly and bright fluorescent lights. Photo by Raychel Ceciro.

Subsidized Rehearsal Space

The Movement Research Subsidized Rehearsal Space Program provides subsidized rehearsal space to artists involved in dance or movement-related processes at a rate as low as $10 per hour. Open through April 30!

Type of postWorkshop
Peter Sciscioli leads participants in an exercise helping to connect their voices into space, extending through their arms and hands. Photo by Nikola Gyulmezov.

Sounding Body Series: Your Voice is a Movement

Acknowledging that our voices are unique to each of us and that any sound we make comes from a movement, I’d like to invite a space where we can explore these phenomena and connect to ways that we might express ourselves more fully in the world.