Classes and Workshops

Happening throughout the week at various times of day, Morning Classes offer the opportunity to learn a Teaching Artist’s movement practices, investigations, and histories. This movement experience may include somatic practices, improvisation techniques, and movement phrase exercises. If dance experience is recommended, it will be indicated in the description of the class.

A series of ongoing, weekly drop-in classes based on a variety of body practices, designed to expand one’s understanding and use of the body. Classes are suitable for professional dancers and non-dancers alike.

Movement Research partners with the Trisha Brown Dance Company to host a low-cost in-person weekly Company Class taught by rotating current and former company members.

Hosted by Movement Research, Dark Room Ballet is a unique program designed to serve the specific educational needs of blind and visually impaired people. Dark Room Ballet is created and taught by Krishna Washburn and coordinated by Alejandra Ospina.

Movement Research hosts a variety of classes in improvisational forms like Contact Improvisation, The Underscore - developed by Nancy Stark Smith and led by a rotating roster of Underscore Facilitators -, and Athletics of Intimacy - K.J. Holmes' signature class - which explores dancing through the improvisational lenses of somatics, contact improvisation, and perceptual composition.

Workshops assist the pursuit of deeper levels of exploration into new dance processes, techniques, and ways of thinking and working, for faculty and students alike. Workshops are scheduled throughout the year, as part of MELT Summer and Winter Intensives, or during the Movement Research Festival.

Movement Research’s Winter and Summer intensives feature innovative teachers and creators exploring pertinent topics in dance today. Workshops include technique, composition, somatic practices, and improvisation as well as non-studio topics like lighting design, reading groups, and “movie” nights.