About Us

Mission

Movement Research, founded in 1978, is one of the world's leading laboratories 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. Movement Research strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.

Read the Movement Research Reflection Sessions Report by clicking on the Annual Report File link below.

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Board of Directors

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Chair

(2003 – 2012; July 2013 – Present) Writer; Curator; Performer and Choreographer

Kay Takeda

Vice Chair

(September 2018 – Present) Senior Director of Artist Programs, Joan Mitchell Foundation

Stephen Facey

Treasurer

(September 2010 – Present) formerly Executive Vice President, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

Edisa Weeks

Secretary (July 2016 – Present)

Associate Professor of Dance and Acting Chair, Dept. of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Queens College; Choreographer DELIRIOUS Dances

Kevin Beasley

(September 2019 – Present)

Barbara Bryan

Executive Director

(January 2000 – Present) Performing Arts Producer, Manager and Curator

Yanira Castro

(July 2019 – Present) Interdisciplinary Dance Artist

Adrienne Edwards

(October 2018 – Present) Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance, The Whitney Museum

André Lepecki

(December 2019 – Present) Professor and Chair, Dept. of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Sarah Michelson

(July 2013 – Present) Choreographer; Curator

Cathy Weis

(September 2022 - Present) Choreographer; Video Artist; Founder of Sundays on Broadway

Staff

Barbara Bryan

Executive Director

Anna Adams Stark

Managing Director

Amanda Loulaki

Programming Director

Martita Abril

Programs & Events Manager, Movement Research at the Judson Church Coordinator

Amanda Stambrosky

Finance Manager

Marýa Wethers

Director, GPS/Global Practice Sharing program

Marielys Lely Burgos Meléndez

Media & Communications Manager

Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson loveconductors

Programs Associate

Leah Fournier

Programs Associate

Megan Curet

Coordinator, Artists of Color Council

Mack Lawrence

Interim Operations Associate

Elle Cherry

Development Associate

Katherine De La Cruz

Interim Media and Communications Associate

Publications

John Arthur Peetz

Performance Journal Managing Editor

Joshua Lubin-Levy

Performance Journal Editor-in-Chief

Nicole Bradbury

Performance Journal Editorial Assistant

Nicole Soto Rodríguez

Critical Correspondence Co-Editor

Londs Reuter

Critical Correspondence Co-Editor

Interns

Demetris Charalambous

Hannah Lieberman

Jingjing Han

Kari Hoglund

Charline Davis-Alicea

Maia Sauer

Advisory Boards

Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT)

Christopher Unpezverde Núñez

Ogemdi Ude

Pelenakeke (Keke) Brown

Kiera Bono

Anna Gichan

Kayla Hamilton

Alejandra Ospina

Yo-Yo Lin

iele paloumpis

Artists of Color Council (AoCC)

Megan Curet

​Imani Rameses

Monica Nyenkan

Nami Yamamoto

Kayva Yang

Artist Advisory Council

Laurie Berg

Marjani Forté-Saunders

Danielle Goldman

Joe Levasseur

Mariangela Lopez

Melanie Maar

Jennifer Miller

jill sigman/thinkdance

Kathy Westwater

Advisory Board

Wendell Beavers

David Dorfman

Simone Forti

Cynthia Hedstrom

Bill T. Jones

Daniel Lepkoff

Steve Paxton

Yvonne Rainer

Jim Staley

Mary Overlie (In Memoriam)