HomeClasses and EventsEventsMovement Research at the Judson Church | Jan 26, 2026
Photo from Sasha Vega's piece for Movement Research at the Judson Church. One artist stands with their shirt over their head while another stands behind them with their head inside the first artist's shirt. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: Photo from Sasha Vega's piece for Movement Research at the Judson Church. One artist stands with their shirt over their head while another stands behind them with their head inside the first artist's shirt. Photo by Rachel Keane.

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 Memorial Church.

Please enter at 243 Thompson St.

 

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
55 Washington Square S
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

Artists

Ellen Söderhult

Ellen Söderhult

Ellen Söderhult is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her choreographic works have often taken on the collective as protagonist (Rudy, Shane et al, How to do things with Romance: a prologue, DUNKA DUNKA), but also explored monstrous emotions and textures in sweet-bitter love (GROV) and the ghostly in the relationship between dancer and dance (Spökdanser, Blessika).

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Jian Yi

Jian Yi

Jian Yi's movement practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience, and touches upon borderline states – considering Otherness, neurodivergence and alternative states of consciousness/being – in line with their continuing research focus on queer mental health.

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Margareta Firinger

Margareta Firinger

Margareta Firinger (born in 1994) works and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Margareta is a freelance dancer, a member of the Association of Professional Dance Artists PULS and the Croatian Freelance Artist Association.

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