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Movement Research at the Judson Church – AoCC Night | Apr 13, 2026

Ayo Joy Walker, Miho Ryu, Zaquia Salinas

  • Mon, Apr 13, 2026 | 7:00 pm
  • Donation-based
  • Judson Memorial Church
Photo from Yun Lee's performance for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Yun stands near an amp. There are wires and other objects on the floor. Yun stands wearing a red tank top and holding a blue electric guitar with the body of the guitar close to their head.
ID: Photo from Yun Lee's performance for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Yun stands near an amp. There are wires and other objects on the floor. Yun stands wearing a red tank top and holding a blue electric guitar with the body of the guitar close to their head.

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 of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Church.

Please enter at 243 Thompson St.

No RSVP required.

Accessibility Notes

This event includes auditive guidance.

The accessible entrance is located at 243 Thompson St. and the elevator at Judson Church is currently working. Personnel from the Judson Church will be at the entrance. The elevator connects Level 1 (street access) to Level 3 (Meeting Room where performances take place) and Level B or basement (where restrooms are located).

For accessibility-related information or requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org with the subject “MR at Judson.”

Location

Judson Memorial Church
243 Thompson St
New York, NY 10012

  • Get the Yellow - BMT Broadway Line numbers: N , R to 8th Street - NYU
  • Get the Blue - IND Eighth Avenue Line numbers: A , C , E to West 4th Street
  • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: B , D , F , M to West 4th Street
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Artists

Ayo Joy Walker

Ayo Joy Walker

Dr. Ayo Walker is an Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at Columbia College Chicago. As an anti-racist educator, she centers culturally relevant and critical dance pedagogies that affirm the techniques, genealogies, and embodied knowledge of historically marginalized dance aesthetics in higher education. Her choreography highlights Africanist and Black dance principles—“blood memories,” the “aesthetic of the cool,” and the “get down”—to challenge reductive assumptions about Black embodiment.

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Miho Ryu

Miho Ryu

Miho Ryu is a New York based Dancer, Choreographer, and Teaching Artist, originally from Tokyo, Japan. She holds BA in Theatre Arts from Waseda University and received Best Dance Choreography from Oniros Film Awards® in 2018. Miho has choreographed and performed more than 100 works including stage performances, films, music videos, and interactive installations, across the continents: Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, and the US. After two decades of professional experience based in Japan, Miho moved back to New York in 2024, the land where she studied dance from 1999-2004.

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Zaquia Salinas

Zaquia Salinas

Zaquia Salinas is a choreographer and dance artist working at the intersection of performance, community practice, and social inquiry. Her work engages diasporic memory, practices for collective liberation, and interdisciplinary form through live performance, film, and site-responsive installation. She shape-shifts as a performer, choreographer, educator, curator, administrator, producer, and organizer.

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