Join Movement Research and the 2026 Gala Co-Chairs on Tuesday, May 19 in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant, and Eleanor Savage!
Event Details
Tuesday, May 19 2026
6pm | Dinner
8pm | Performance & Party
Location: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South New York, NY
Judson Church is an accessible venue. If you require assistance, please contact gala@movementresearch.org or (212) 598-0551 (voice only).
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Honorees
2026 Gala Co-Chairs
2026 Gala Honorary Committee Members
(as of Mar 9, 2026)
Adrienne Edwards, Ana Javneski, Annie Dorsen, Connie Butler, David Thomson, Emil Kang, Janet Wong, Jordana Leigh, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Katherine Profeta, Kevin Beasley, McKenzie Frye, Michelle Coffey, Philip Bither, Saidiya Hartman, Stacy Lynn Smith, T. Lax, Wanjiru Kamuyu
Donate to the 2026 Gala Funds
Each year Movement Research offers our community the opportunity to make a gift towards specific initiatives that our Gala honorees strongly believe in. We hope that you’ll join our honorees in speaking up and supporting what needs our care and support. It’s just one more way that Movement Research’s Gala facilitates connections amongst our art-loving family, and beyond.
If you are unable to attend the Gala on May 19th, this is a great way to show your support. If you are able to attend and want to make an additional gift, please do! All donations of $500 and above will be acknowledged in the Gala program (if received by May 1st) and on our website.
Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born: The MR Artist Residencies Fund
Sweat Variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, believes that a thriving arts ecosystem depends on cultivating a network of mutual support among artists. Residency programs are vital support for artists, allowing them to stay in a fruitful entanglement, providing time to reconnect and sustain each other in the process. The MR Artists Residencies Fund will support Movement Research’s suite of residency programs, which offers artists space, resources and time to research their artistic interests and practices through an interconnected community.
Eleanor Savage: The Future of MR Fund
In these vulnerable times, artists need more than resources—they need an artistic home rooted in trust, experimentation, and collective care. Movement Research sustains a living infrastructure that holds space for dialogue, shared inquiry, and community conversation, while affirming artists’ agency to question, disrupt, and reimagine the very systems that shape their work. The Future of MR Fund will strengthen the long-term sustainability of this vital ecosystem, ensuring Movement Research can continue to support a diverse and intergenerational community of dance artists, with a deep commitment to resourcing and amplifying artists from historically underserved communities.
