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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Category: Workshop

Sounding Body Series: Vibrational Frequencies

Tatyana Tenenbaum

Thu, Oct 17 - Oct 31, 2024

Two people providing touch and physical support to a workshop participant whose eyes are closed and mouth is open, making sound. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
Category: Events

Studies Project: Idea-to-Action Lab

Dancers For Palestine

Fri, Oct 18, 2024

At a Not Another Bomb rally in front of the Hudson River, protesters close their eyes for a moment of silence, holding signs reading
Category: Events

Movement Research at the Judson Church | October 21, 2024

Jace Weyant, Crackhead Barney, Sanna Blennow

Mon, Oct 21, 2024

Rebecca Pappas performs for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Four dancers perform using chairs, cushions and rope as props. One dancer in the center stands and arches backwards extending their arms. Three other dancers sit looking at them. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Featured

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Join us at the Movement Research Gala on Oct 1!

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Classes and Workshops
A brown-skinned Filipino man, Gerald wears a black t-shirt and jeans and dances against a concrete wall and Redwood trees. Photo by Crystal Birns.

Morning Dance Class

Type of postPublications

Critical Correspondence

On Afro-Boricua Identity, Bomba and the Tela: a Conversation between Megan Curet and Milteri Tucker Concepcion

Type of postPublications
A word cloud created with post-it notes spread out on the floor. Some of the words and phrases include: roots vs. branches, rolling, rough hands, and ribcage. Image courtesy of the artist.

Critical Correspondence

A Response to Dream Space/Activating Pedagogies