2025 Summer MELT with Jordan Demitrius Lloyd; several dancers in a studio.

Rachel Keane

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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.

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Category: Class

Athletics of Intimacy

K.J. Holmes

Sat, Sep 20, 2025 - Feb 28, 2026

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

MR Movie Night: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

mayfield brooks

Mon, Sep 22, 2025

Title of film, On Becoming A Guinea Fowl in big yellow letters with a green background fills the movie poster. The bottom left are three black women in colorful clothing and the one in the foreground is holding a child. Small. animated looking drawings of guinea fowls are in the upper right and on the left of the poster.
Category: Events

Open Performance | Sep 23, 2025

Tue, Sep 23, 2025

An Open Performance artist running in a black and red dress. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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Critical Correspondence

[Cancer Dancer] leaving fear at the door: A Writing by Sue Roginski

Every 4 months I go to City of Hope (CofH) for my oncology visit.

Type of postEvent
A screen shot of Catalyst's Decolonization Rider shows the initial text of the document, beginning

Studies Project: Activating the Decolonization Rider

About our Classes and Workshops
K.J. Holmes, Workshop in Sweden 2022. A studio of dancers moving in space.

Athletics of Intimacy

About our Classes and Workshops
Malcolm sits on a stack of red chairs, he looks directly to the camera leaning slightly right. Photo courtesy of the artist.

CHASING THE FRAMEWORK