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 Winter/Spring Internships | OPEN NOW through Feb 28

Open Performance Lottery Form | OPEN NOW through Mar 3

MR AIR Application | OPEN NOW through Mar 18

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What's upcoming at Movement Research

Category: Class

The Athletics of Intimacy

K.J. Holmes

Sat, Feb 22 - May 24, 2025

K.J. Holmes, Workshop in Sweden 2022. A studio of dancers moving in space.
Category: Events

Movement Research at Judson Church | March 3, 2025

Demetris Charalambous, Giordana Falzone and Agata Jędrzejczak, Emilee Lord

Mon, Mar 3, 2025

Two dancers stand diagonally facing each other. The dancer in the foreground holds red fabric panels that stretch out across the floor towards the other performer. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Category: Class

Morning Class: Pleasure Practice

luciana achugar

Mar 3 - Jun 13, 2025

An image from a performance with green lighting and with many costume pieces strewn across the white floor with one performer in the foreground covered by a green lit fabric. In the background diagonally across from is another performer, luciana achugar, kneeling naked on the ground with torso folded forward and crown of head touching the ground with a rounded spine. It looks like prayer or a space for ritual. Photo by Brian Rogers.

Check the calendar for a full listing of events, classes and workshops

Featured

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

Registration opens March 10!!

Events
Two dancers stand diagonally facing each other. The dancer in the foreground holds red fabric panels that stretch out across the floor towards the other performer. Photo by Rachel Keane.

Movement Research at Judson Church | March 3, 2025

A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee

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!

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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.