HomeClasses and EventsEventsMovement Research at the Judson Church | Jun 1, 2026
Photo of New Kyd performing for Movement Research at the Judson Church. They're caught mid-step and reaching upward with one arm while the other bends at the elbow and reaches in front of their face. Photo by Ryutaro Mishima.
ID: Photo of New Kyd performing for Movement Research at the Judson Church. They're caught mid-step and reaching upward with one arm while the other bends at the elbow and reaches in front of their face. Photo by Ryutaro Mishima.

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

Melinda Ring

Melinda Ring

Melinda Ring, choreographer, born in 1960 in Los Angeles, CA, has lived and worked in New York since 2001. She is dedicated to process and experimentation as a story in itself. One that embraces multiple possible outcomes — which might include uncertainty, humor, chaos and even formal beauty — research meant to be shared.

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Molly M. Whawell with Zinzi Buchanan, Kirstin Halliday and Aniela Piasecka

Molly M. Whawell with Zinzi Buchanan, Kirstin Halliday and Aniela Piasecka

Molly M. Whawell (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, Scotland, working across installation, sculpture, performance and moving image. Through their work they are interested in the spatial systems and conceptual infrastructures at work behind everyday life - particularly moments at which bodies intersect or are in friction with these.

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Stuart B Meyers

Stuart B Meyers

Stuart B Meyers is a New Orleans and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performing artist devoted to illuminating the hidden corners of our inner worlds through dance, theater, ritual, and communal gathering.

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Veronica Santiago Moniello

Veronica Santiago Moniello

Veronica Santiago Moniello is a dance maker. Dances, for her, are emanations from a body in flux and its transformative farewells—in correspondence with natural elements and poetry. Her practice is rooted in dance, research, process-oriented performances, curation, and teaching.

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