HomeClasses and EventsEventsMovement Research at the Judson Church | Mar 16, 2026
Sasha Vega's performance for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Three dancers wear blonde wigs and black berets. they move around the space. One dancer stands in the forefront a reaches. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: Sasha Vega's performance for Movement Research at the Judson Church. Three dancers wear blonde wigs and black berets. they move around the space. One dancer stands in the forefront a reaches. 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 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

Artists

Ariana Speight

Ariana Speight

Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. She has worked with a number of artists including: Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young.

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Andrea Soto

Andrea Soto

Andrea Soto, raised in Juarez, is a first generation Mexican American performer and movement artist whose craft lives in a duality from being a border child, “no soy de aquí, ni soy de allá,” as Chavela Vargas sings. She believes in the body as our truth system, and her work spans over dance, performance art, and physical theater.

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Stephanie Hewett

Stephanie Hewett

Stephanie Hewett is a Bronx-based artist weaving queer Afro-Caribbean diasporic experiences and improvisation through performance. She works with movement to decode ancestral wisdom stored in the body and experiments with electronic music production to explore polyrhythmic potentialities for generational healing.

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Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett are partners in both life and their creative endeavors. They construct dance works, films and research-based practices aimed to disrupt assumptions of performance and personhood.

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