[Virtual] Starship Somatics

This class is offered FREE via Zoom. Donations are encouraged ($5, $10, $25) >>DONATE HERE Pre-registration is required. No class on March 28, 2023. >>REGISTER HERE<< Class Descrip...

[Virtual] BodyMind Dancing™

This class is offered at a sliding scale from $25-$5//class.Payment is required for Class Registration. The class will be taught by Martha Eddy and BMD™ certified teachers. >>REGISTER HERE<&l...

[Virtual] Topf Technique /Dynamic Anatomy®

This class is offered Online via Zoom on a sliding scale $0-$25. Pre-registration is required. Attendees register separately for each occurrence of class. No class: April 4Consult our Frequently Asked...

[In-Person] Klein Technique™ / Movement Class

[In-person] Single Classes are $16/class.Pre-registration is required Wally Cardona will be subbing on March 24. Register via >>Gibney´s Class Schedule Please refer to Gibney´s visit guidelines ...

[In-person] Pilates Mat Class for Dancers

[In-person] Single Classes are $16/class.Pre-registration is required. Registration Opens Soon via >>Gibney´s Class Schedule Please refer to Gibney´s visit guidelines when attending this class.F...

[In-Person] Morning Class: Perceptual Dancing

[In-Person] Single Classes are $16/class. This class takes place at the 122CC Ninth Street Studio. Pre-registration is required.>>REGISTER HERE<< For the HEALTH of OUR COMMUNITIES, we will...

[In-Person] GPS Chats: Contemporary Performance & Creative Production in Beirut

[In-Person] GPS Chats:Contemporary Performance & Creative Production in Beirut Featuring Romy Assouad of YARAQA (Lebanon) This is a Free event. Spaces are limited.Reservations required. >>R...

[In-Person] GPS Chats: Arab American Choreography Today

[In-person] GPS Chats: Arab American Choreography Today Featuring artists Nora Alami, Jadd Tank, and Leyya Mona Tawil, moderated by Adham Hafez This is a Free event. Spaces are limited. Reservation...

[In-Person] Crip Movement Lab

This FREE workshop is brought to you bythe Artist of Color Council. [In-Person] Crip Movement Lab This is part three in a series of three workshops led by Kayla Hamilton. >>REGISTER HERE<&lt...

[Virtual] Studies Project: Redefining our place as Mothers, Artists, and Immigrants in the NYC Landscape

[Virtual] Studies Project: Studies Project: Redefining our place as Mothers, Artists, and Immigrants in the NYC Landscape >>RSVP HERE<< FREE. RSVP is required for in-person attendance. Des...

[Virtual] Artists of Color Council Meeting

Artist of Color Council (AoCC) Monthly MeetingJune 10, 202312:30-1:30pm ET |FREE | Online via Zoom To join email:[email protected] Megan Curet, AoCC Coordinator About the AoCC The ...

[Virtual] Artists of Color Council Meeting

Artist of Color Council (AoCC) Monthly MeetingMay 13, 202312:30-1:30pm ET |FREE | Online via Zoom To join email:[email protected] Megan Curet, AoCC Coordinator About the AoCC The A...

[Virtual] Artists of Color Council Meeting

Artist of Color Council (AoCC) Monthly Meeting April 15, 2023 12:30-1:30pm ET |FREE | Online via ZoomTo join email:[email protected]vementresearch.org Megan Curet, AoCC Coordinator About the AoCC Th...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (June 5, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (May 22, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (May 15, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (May 8, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (April 24, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (April 17, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fal...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (April 10, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fal...

Movement Research at the Judson Church (April 3, 2023)

Movement Research at the Judson Church This is a FREE EVENT No reservations required. A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fal...

[In-Person] Studies Project - Dynamic Embodiment of the Sun Salutation- a book talk on a somatic resource manual for healing

[In-Person] Studies Project: Dynamic Embodiment of the Sun Salutation—a book talk on a somatic resource manual for healing--from the physical to the vibratory >>RSVP HERE<< FREE. RSVP is r...

Morning Class

Informed by his linguistic study in different sociocultural contexts, Huiwang’s movement class experientially plays in the space between linguistic expression and body perception through dynamic quali...

Witchcraft – a Corporeal Practice

This class explores movement, ritual and visualization as pathways toward re-patterning stagnant energy. The lunar calendar, seasons and astrology all have visceral effects, so we’ll tap into what is ...

Morning Class

Inside of improvised scores and learned movement sequences, we will cultivate and interrogate strategies for dancing. We will observe how we engage with material, and what we notice about our engageme...

CANCELED: Skinner Releasing Technique™, Introductory Level

While canceled December 5, the ongoing class continues every Tuesday through December 19!This imagery-based somatic experience facilitates ease and healing. We delve deep inside and shed notions of st...

Contact Improvisation – The Basics

Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a partnering dance form that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supp...

MELT—Rove

Spend a weekend with Yoshiko and Jodi. What is it to pass through physical sensations, to feel numb, to clarify the body, and to generate content? Join activist, choreographer, and director Yoshiko Ch...

Morning Class

This class will focus on allowing the inherent dynamic logic of the moving body to become more present in our dancing. We will encourage each cell, joint, bone, fiber, what-have-you, in our bodies to ...

Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a partnering dance form that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and suppor...

Qi Gong

Utilizing Qi Gong-based principles and exercises, we will identify and engage the systems of the body. By practicing forms and visualizations, we will connect the corporeal to the energetic, the inter...

Qi Gong

Utilizing Qi Gong-based principles and exercises, we will identify and engage the systems of the body. By practicing forms and visualizations, we will connect the corporeal to the energetic, the inter...

Witchcraft – A Corporeal Practice

For the August 15 class, Jill will bring her knowledge of spontaneous urban plants (weeds), ritual, and untraditional healing to the workshop. We will work with live plants such as mugwort, mullein, a...

Klein™/Barre -- CANCELED

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

Morning Class

Physical Propulsion is a training method of engaging the body through space using floor, standing and aerial techniques rooted in sacro-cranial alignment and awareness. The movement variations are bas...

Contact Improvisation - The Basics

Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a partnering dance form that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and suppor...

Morning Class

By listening to our inherent natural capacities that provide energy, impulse, information and evolution, our warm up will help us become familiar with our range of effective force, momentum, coordinat...

Feldenkrais®

The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. The method emphasizes awarenes...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

wall, floor, ceiling: composing in improvisation

Through years of choreographing and studying improvisation, my class explores compositional skills via improvisations in the goal of igniting our imaginations. Each class builds on a theme of allowing...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

Cecilia Lisa Eliceche

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Johanna S. Meyer

Johanna S. Meyer is a Pilates teacher, choreographer and dancer. She has performed and made work since the 1990s in New York City and recently graduated with an MFA in Dance from University of Illinoi...

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Bradley Teal Ellis

Bradley Teal Ellis is a Brooklyn-based improviser. He has practiced Contact Improvisation for 20 years, and frequently collaborates in process and performance with other artists. In addition to Moveme...

Daria Faïn

Of mixed Mediterranean origins, Daria Faïn was raised in France and has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1996. Her performance practice is informed by four decades of studies in the Asian philosophies of t...

Martha Eddy

Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT, EdD, was among the first to teach a somatic approach to dance beginning in the 1980s. BodyMind Dancing grows out of Dynamic Embodiment- her form of Somatic Movement Education a...

Barbara Mahler

Barbara Mahler began her studies with Susan Klein and Colette Barry in 1977 when their studio on 56th Street opened. A “intern," moving on as a substitute teacher, daily plus classes, deeply folded he...

Gwen Welliver

Gwen Welliver is a dancer, choreographer and dedicated teacher. Welliver received a New York Dance and Performance ‘Bessie’ Award for Sustained Achievement in Dancing after a decade of performing with...

Joanna Kotze

Joanna Kotze is a Bessie-award winning dancer and choreographer. Her work has received funding from the Jerome, Mertz-Gilmore, and Harkness Foundations, New Music USA, NYFA BUILD, Brooklyn Arts Counci...

Eleanor Bauer

Eleanor Bauer is a choreographer and performer working at the intersections of dance, writing, and music. Her work is a synthesis of embodied intelligences, a practice of making sense with the senses....

luciana achugar

luciana achugar is a Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue with the NY and Uruguayan contemporary dance communities. She has been making work in NYC and Uru...

Chris Aiken

Chris Aiken is recognized internationally for his work as a dance maker and teacher of dance improvisation, performance, and contact improvisation. His work has evolved through long-term collaboration...

Karl Anderson

Karl Anderson has been making stuff in NYC since 1987. He has degrees in dance (CalArts) and architecture (Pratt). Drawing from myriad interests and desires, his performances range from raw and jarrin...

Aretha Aoki

Aretha is a choreographer, performer, and Assistant Professor of Dance at Bowdoin College. Her current research is an exploration of the body as a medium for the residue of family history. Aretha's wo...

Elliott Jenetopulos

Elliott Jenetopulos works in design and production of dance and performance, and as a collaborator on Sarah Maxfield's Nonlinear Lineage, an artist-driven archive of experimental dance and performance...

Eleanor Smith

Eleanor Smith (she/her) is a choreographer, freelance dancer, and Authentic Movement Practitioner. She has been making dances with Molly Lieber since 2006. Recent works include: Gloria (Abrons Arts Ce...

Kathy Westwater

Kathy Westwater, 2017 recipient of the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Her work, described in The Brooklyn Rail as “at ...

Antonio Ramos

ANTONIO RAMOS is a dancer, choreographer, and certified body work practitioner who was born and raised in Puerto Rico where he trained in jazz, salsa, and African dance. His choreography has been prod...

Janet Panetta

A veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet...

Emily Faulkner

Emily Faulkner has been an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique for over 20 years. During that time she explored the relationship between intention and movement extensively. Her passion,...

Tasha Taylor

Tasha Taylor, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2006, maintains a vibrant practice focusing on performing artists interested in improving their self-use to elicit their capacity for mo...

Catherine Galasso

Catherine Galasso is a choreographer and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. Since 2006 she has created eight evening-length, cross-disciplinary, cast-specific works and numerous shorter performance...

Vicky Shick

Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC dance community for four decades—performing and making dances, collaborating with various performers, artists, and sound designers. For six years she was a mem...

Ori Flomin

Ori Flomin started performing in his parents living room in his homeland, Israel, before landing in NYC, where he has been dancing, living, surviving, and thriving since 1989. He holds an MFA in Dance...

Kayvon Pourazar

Kayvon Pourazar is of Persian origin, and spent his formative years in Iran, Turkey and England. Kayvon immigrated to the US in 1995, graduated from SUNY Purchase in May 2000 and has resided in NYC ev...

Paul Singh

Paul Singh earned his BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, USA. He has danced for Gerald Casel, Jane Comfort, Risa Jaroslow, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Will Rawls, Faye Driscoll, and...

iele paloumpis

iele paloumpis is a choreographer, herbalist, educator and textile artist. Their work is rooted in disability justice, trauma-informed griefwork and ancestral re-membrance practices. iele comes from a...

Steve Paxton

Mary Overlie (In Memoriam)

Mary Overlie is an observer/participant, a deconstructing postmodern theatre practitioner, an original anarchist. She is a woman who is not afraid of obscurity, or worried that being unknown might obs...

Mariana Valencia

Choreographer and performer Mariana Valencia, is an LMCC Extended Life grantee (2020), a Whitney Biennial artist (2019), a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (2018), a Found...

Jumatatu Poe

Jumatatu Poe is a choreographer and performer based between Philadelphia and New York City. His early exposure to concert dance was through African dance and capoeira performances on California colleg...

Marissa Perel

Perel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered on disability and queerness as they relate to care, consent, power, and sexuality. They are a Mertz-Gilmore AIR at Movement Research (2018-2...

​ Regina AKA Wolf Medicine

Regina AKA Wolf Medicine is a Brooklyn-based Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor and yoga instructor trained at the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda. In 2013 she took a pause from the dance world to pursu...

Weena Pauly

Weena Pauly has lived as a dancer in NYC for the last 18 years. She has over 20 years of experience in movement based healing and transformation. Weena is a Registered Yoga Therapist (RYT-700) as well...

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (LA/NYC) is a Creative Capital and Bessie Award winning nonbinary interdisciplinary artist, root and word worker, referred to as “majestic” by the New York Times, and recognized by ...

mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks improvises while black, and is currently based on Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape people, also known as Brooklyn, New York. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, voca...

chameckilerner

Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner have been dancing together since they were fifteen years old. Moving to New York from Curitiba, Brazil, in 1989, they have been collaborating for thir- ty-five years....

Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay is a dancer who choreographs, writes, directs, and teaches. She is now unchoreographing her choreographed body or she could say she is choreographing her unchoreography. A retrospective of...

​Becca ​Blackwell

Becca Blackwell is a NYC based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand ...

Bashir David Naim

BASHIR DAVIID NAIM IS A MOVEMENT ARTIST BASED PRIMARILY IN LOS ANGELES. THEIR FAMILY FOUNDED A DANCE AND PERFORMANCE ART COMMUNITY IN THE BERKSHIRE MOUNTAINS. BASHIR WAS EARLY ACQUAINTED WITH ARTISTS ...

taisha paggett

taisha paggett’s work for the stage, gallery and public space include individual and collaborative investigations into questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender, along wi...

Irene Dowd

Irene Dowd is on the dance faculty of the Juilliard School. Author of Taking Root to Fly, she has maintained a practice in kinesthetic anatomy and neuromuscular re-education since 1968, while being a ...

K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes has been practicing Contact Improvisation as process and performance since 1981, studying with the early developers of the form including Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Daniel Lepkoff...

Tere O'Connor

Tere O’Connor is the Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance and a Center for Advanced Studies Professor at the University of Illinois. He has created over 40 works for his company and many commissio...

Juliette Mapp

Juliette Mapp  is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in NYC. Juliette has taught and performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. She has been on the facu...

Lance Gries

Nancy Dalva

Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman, Ph.D, is the Graduate Director of a new MFA in Dance degree at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick New Jersey. Jeff earned his B.Arch from the Universit...

Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn was born and raised on occupied lands now known as Houston, TX. They are an interdisciplinary artist, director, choreographer, organizer, teaching artist, and a 2017 and 2021 Bessies awa...

Strauss Bourque-LaFrance

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Jennifer Nugent

Jennifer Nugent danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2014 and David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her work in the co...

Yvonne Meier

Yvonne Meier has been exploring improvisation in performance and teaching Releasing Technique, Authentic Movement and her own improvisational technique, “Scores,” throughout the U.S. and Europe for th...

Donna Uchizono

Donna Uchizono is a dance artist based in New York City and Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company, which has toured throughout the U.S, Europe, South America and most recently Australia. A 2016 ...

Sarah Michelson

Sarah Michelson is a choreographer living and working in NYC. She has been a guest curator at The Kitchen since 2003 which has included a deep ongoing commitment to the DAP program. She is basically a...

Jeremy Nelson

Jeremy Nelson danced for the Stephen Petronio Dance Company as well as in the work of David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis Lara Malvacías, in his own work, and with improviser Kirstie Simson. He is th...

Jennifer Monson

Choreographer, improviser and teacher, Jennifer Monson is the founder and artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance and a Professor of Dance at the University o...

RoseAnne Spradlin

RoseAnne Spradlin, NYC-based choreographer, is interested in body consciousness and presence of the performer. She has taught in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Tinos, Greece, Amherst, Berkel...

Judith Sánchez Ruíz

Judith Sánchez Ruíz is a Cuban-born choreographer, improviser and teacher based in New York since 1999 and relocated to Berlin in 2011. She has worked with Trisha Brown Dance Company, David Zambrano, ...

Kyle deCamp

Kyle deCamp’s multi-focused performance work explores intersections of art, architecture, history and individual lives. Productions of her multimedia solo performance URBAN RENEWAL include Crossing Th...

Miguel Gutierrez

Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, and Feldenkrais Method practitioner who lives in Brooklyn. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. His work has been present...

Hristoula Harakas

Hristoula Harakas is a contemporary dance artist based in New York. She is a 2006 "Bessie" performance award recipient who has had the pleasure of working with such inspiring artists as: Maria Hassabi...

Marjani Forté-Saunders

Marjani Forté-Saunders is a choreographer, performer, educator, community organizer, and mother. She refers to dance and embodiment as her sorcery—revolutionary, transformative, wild, ancient, and fre...

nia love

nia love’s career spans forty years, beginning in 1978 when she became one of the youngest international apprentices with Havana’s world-renowned Ballet Nacional de Cuba. In 1986, Love studied Butoh a...

Rachel Bernsen

Rachel Bernsen is a a dance artist, educator and nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, M.AmSAT. She maintains a private practice in AT in New Haven, CT and teaches the Technique for...

Rebecca Davis

A choreographer, performer, and Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Rebecca Davis has been active in the New York City dance community for over 20 years. She is currently studying in the Somatic Experiencing...

Adi Eytan

Adi Eytan, originally from Israel, lives in Brooklyn and makes performances. She teaches Pilates and Yoga throughout NYC and Israel, and holds certifications from Teri Steele Pilates and Yoga Vida. Ad...

Biba Bell

Biba Bell (b. 1976, Sebastopol) is a dancer, choreographer and writer based in Detroit. Her choreographic work, often set in unconventional venues, focuses on domesticity, labor, and architecture and ...

Myriam Van Imschoot

Brussels-based artist Myriam Van Imschoot has been active in the fields of contemporary dance and performance for two decades under various and often mistaken identities. After her engagement with dan...

Tara Aisha Willis

Tara Aisha Willis is Associate Curator of Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, after working on programming and diversity initiatives at Movement Research in New York. She is a PhD c...

Ilona Bito

Ilona Bito (she/they) is a NYC based dance artist and educator from NJ and Seattle. Bito’s projects are concerned with the universal capacity to embody instinct and intuition, dynamic agency, and the ...

Moira Brennan

Moira Brennan is the Executive Director of the MAP Fund, an annual grant program serving contemporary performing artists. She speaks throughout the country on the complex interplay between creativity,...

Barbara Bryan

Barbara Bryan is the Executive Director of Movement Research and is an independent performing arts producer, manager and curator currently working with Sarah Michelson, Lower Manhattan Cultural Counci...

niv Acosta

niv Acosta was born May 1988 in New York City to a 15 year old single Black Dominican woman. niv was raised in Manhattan and the south Bronx by his mother, part by his grandmother and in the foster ca...

Hilary Clark

Hilary Clark has danced with Jen Rosenblit, Young Jean Lee Theater Company, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Luke George, luciana achugar and Tere O'Connor (2004-2011). In 2008, she received ...

Underscore Facilitators

Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2-time cancer survivor, and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internati...

Greer Dworman

Greer Dworman is a Chicago-born now Brooklyn-based performer and maker. Their work has been presented in venues across Chicago and now emerging within the New York performance community. They received...

Anna Adams Stark

Anna Adams Stark is a performer and arts administrator based in NYC. She hails from Normal, IL and holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa. As a performer she has worked with Kim Brandt, the ...

Maura Donohue

Maura Nguyen Donohue has been making experimental performance works in NYC for 20 years. Her work has been produced by Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Roulette, Danspace Project, Perf...

Cathy Edwards

Stephen Facey

Stephen’s work in the arts began as a teenage member of the repertory company at the Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street. After a year at South Coast Repertory in California, Stephen returned t...

Boo Froebel

Boo Froebel, independent curator and producer of live performance, consults for the DeVos Institute of Arts Management and recently produced ContraBanned: #MusicUnites at SXSW 2017, a showcase of arti...

Molly Gross

Molly Gross has been Communications Director at the The Drawing Center since June 2012. Prior to her appointment at The Drawing Center, Molly Gross was the Senior Publicist for the Whitney Museum. Sta...

Carla Peterson

Carla Peterson was appointed Director of Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University’s School of Dance in Tallahassee, Florida in May 2014 after serving as Artistic Dir...

Will Rawls

Will Rawls is a New York-based choreographer, performer and writer. His work has appeared at the MoMA and MoMA PS1; MCA, Chicago; Danspace Project; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Issue Project Room; ...

David Sheingold

Steve Staso

Michèle Steinwald

Michèle Steinwald has an impressive assortment of curatorial, institutional, artistic and educational bona fides. (If you’d like, you can skip to the end of all this and find them listed handily below...

Dana Whitco

Dana Whitco directs the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, a new strategic initiative designed to catalyze, nurture and promote the research praxis of Tisch faculty, students and staff. Dana work...

Guy Yarden

Jordan Chlapeka

Jordan Chlapeka received his master's degree in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School and earned bachelor's degrees in Advertising and Anthropology from Southern Methodist Univer...

Chisa Hidaka

Chisa Hidaka, MD, directs the Dolphin Dance Project (www.dolphin-dance.org) in which, together with partner Ben Harley, she brings together wild dolphins and trained human dancers to co-create underwa...

Tamar Kipnis

Tamar Kipnis, MS, NCPsyA, BC-DMT is a Licensed Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and a Licensed Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, NYC. Tamar has been studying Contact Improvisation, Authentic ...

Sarah Konner

Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and movement educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah teaches, practices and performs improvisation in New York and across the US. She has been teaching Contact...

Luce Mahler

Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internatio...

Charles Mosey

Charles Mosey has been practicing, researching, facilitating, and teaching Contact Improvisation for over 20 years. In that time, he has had the opportunity to work in depth with Daniel Lepkoff and Na...

Brandin Steffensen

Brandin Steffensen makes dances that engage the dance artist's choreographed and spontaneous bodies. He is concerned with layering practices to create compelling ensemble and framing the work so its q...

Kyli Kleven

Kyli Kleven is an artist based in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown at Gibney Dance Center, The Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Shelter Talks, and Roulette Int...

Residencies

Movement Research offers residencies to artists at various stages in their career. The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program was launched in 1991. In 2001 it became a two-year Artist-in-Resid...

Internships

The Movement Research Internship Program supports early career artists and arts workers in learning valuable skills in the areas of nonprofit performing arts administration, production and event manag...

Movement Research Exchange (MRX)

A vehicle to spur interaction and exchange among independent choreographers and their peers from within and outside the U.S, MRX enables Artists-in-Residence and faculty to travel outside their home e...

Dance Makers in the Schools

A collaboration with NYC public school communities, Dance Makers in the Schools creates educational opportunities in which working dance artists teach children and share their own creative processes. ...

Exchange Programs

GPS/Global Practice Sharing

GPS/Global Practice Sharing provides a platform for the international exchange of ideas, processes and reflective practices surrounding dance and movement based forms between the U.S. and independent ...

Performance

Movement Research offers two programs providing ongoing opportunities for artists to share work in process: Movement Research at the Judson Church and Open Performance. >>Open Performance Open ...

Artists of Color Council

A cohort of artists of color addressing cultural diversity, equity, and sustainable structural integration in MR’s operations, programming, outreach, and throughout its extended communities. The counc...

Move to Heal/Action to Heal

Move to Heal/Action to Heal shares the practices of artists who work across forms – movement and body-based practices, community activism, social justice, and identity politics. Move to Heal/Action t...

Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT)

The Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT) is a cohort of disabled artists advising Movement Research on Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion across its departments and platforms.

Bill T. Jones in conversation with Guy Yarden

Download this interview as PDF Guy Yarden: I listened to the podcast that you have online about Blind Date… Bill T. Jones: …which is a bit outdated now, but… GY: …and I thought what we could do was to...

Chris Yon, Jeff Larson, and Zach Steel in conversation with Jeanine Durning

PEAR COWBOY PLANET Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Steven Schreiber Jeanine Durning: So, I’m doing this interview w/ Chris Yon, Jeff Larson and Zach Steel, (an...

Christopher Williams in conversation with Alejandra Martorell

The Portuguese Suite and The Golden Legend (excerpts) Download this interview as PDF Alejandra Martorell: I know you're crazy; you're going to rehearsal, and your opening night is soon. Basically I ju...

Kimberly Bartosik in conversation with Heather Olson

home in the neon heat Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Heather Olson: What are you working on in your new piece? Kimberly Bartosik: You mean, what kind of concepts and issues I’...

Lisa Nelson in conversation with Nita Little

Tuning Scores We take the opportunity of Lisa Nelson’s upcoming Tuning Scores workshop to publish a public interview with her conducted by Nita Little during the Side Step Festival of 2005 in Finland...

Maria Hassabi in conversation with Sigal Bergman

Still Smoking Download this interview as PDF Sigal Bergman: So, I just wanted to see what you're working with in this piece. We can start with a general question, or we could do more specific qu...

Neil Greenberg and Miguel Gutierrez in conversation, Part 1

Not-About-AIDS-Dance and Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Miguel Gutierrez: I want to start with a question for you. I'm ...

Neil Greenberg and Miguel Gutierrez in conversation, Part 2

Not-About-AIDS-Dance and Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Neil: I want to go back to me sitting in the studio with Cunningham wo...

Tere O'Connor in conversation with Alejandra Martorell

Baby Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Tere O'Connor Alejandra Martorell: The basic question is: what are you working on with Baby? Tere O'Connor: I should introduce it by sayi...

Ursula Eagly & Rebecca Davis in conversation with Sarah Maxfield

Nobody Try to Be a Hero and The Birds are here. I hear them. Download this interview as PDF Sarah Maxfield: I often see you performing in each other's work, yet you choose to make separate piece...

Yasmeen Godder in conversation with RoseAnne Spradlin

Yasmeen Godder and the Bloody Bench Players present Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder Download this interview as PDF This interview occurred on the phone with Yasmeen in Israel, therefore, “here” refers ...

Yasuko Yokoshi in conversation with Tere O'Connor

what we when we Download this interview as PDF Tere O'Connor: I think I would go back to what I said in the elevator, about how forcefully selected what you’re doing is. And I would start by a...

Yvonne Meier in conversation with Rebecca Serrell

Rebecca Serrell: First question, a little off the beaten track…can you tell me about the first dance you ever made? Yvonne Meier: I remember when I was playing that really stupid Cossack music from t...

Yvonne Rainer in conversation with Clarinda Mac Low

Download this interview as PDF Clarinda Mac Low: I mostly just want you to talk. Is there anything you want to say before I ask any questions? Yvonne Rainer: No. CM: I was intereste...

Alain Buffard in conversation with Jennifer Monson

Mauvais Genre Download this interview as PDF Alain Buffard: It works? Jennifer Monson: I tested it. AB: The first interview... I made it with a very famous French writer, and it was ch...

Andrew Dawson in conversation with RoseAnne Spradlin

Absence and Presence Download this article as PDF Andrew Dawson: Is it sunny? RoseAnne Spradlin: It's raining here. AD: It is here as well, so that's ok. RS: Can you just give some brief biogra...

From the Archives: Sam Kim in conversation with Rachel Bernsen

Avatar Download this interview as PDF Rachel Bernsen: I spent the morning looking at the video of your work and was really fascinated by the fact that I was able to watch 3 things back to back from 20...

iLand: Project Description

iLAB Collaborative Residency A project of iLAND, iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, arch...

iLand: First Dialogue

iLAB Collaborative Residency  Q1: What is your starting point? Michelle: Hope emailed me. The series of questions Hope sent me was a starting point. There are ideas in this that I have been thinkin...

iLand: Hope Mohr: Entry #1

iLAB Collaborative Residency September 7 A question of method: Intentional versus unconscious physical responses to noise. Deconstructing the decision to move. The critical moment is the gap between...

Alma Esperanza-Cunningham and Mary Armentrout in conversation with Faye Driscoll

in advance of Seen: SAN FRANCISCO, a Movement Research Studies Project curated by Trajal Harrell and Mary Armentrout Download this interview as PDF Alma Esperanza-Cunningham: Are you from the Bay ...

Artists/Curators Series: Jamm in conversation with Levi Gonzalez

AUNTS Download this interview as PDF Levi Gonzalez: So, let’s start simple—like a little bit of the history of AUNTS Bash—how did it start, where did the idea come from, and what is it? Jamm Leary:...

Boris Charmatz in conversation with Chase Granoff

à Bras le Corps Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Boris Charmatz Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chablas will perform à Bras le Corps at Danspace Project on October 26-28th, 8...

Carolyn Hall in conversation with Sarah Maxfield

Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Elazar C. Harel Sarah Maxfield: Hi Carolyn Hall! Carolyn Hall: Hi Sarah Maxfield! Sarah: Okay. So, we’ll get started. You are often an originati...

Christalyn Wright and Mariangela Lopez in conversation with Clarinda Mac Low

In the Landscape of Rolling Heels and Struggles with Words, Attitudes and Great Expectations Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Christalyn Wright and Mariangela Lopez C...

Luciana Achugar in conversation with Beth Gill

Exhausting Love at Danspace Project Thumbnail photo by Natalia Gomensoro   Beth Gill: That was interesting that you said you're more excited about this piece than about your last piece A Super...

Molissa Fenley in conversation with Tere O'Connor

Patterns and Expectations and Four Lines Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Paula Court, ©2005 Tere O'Connor: Okay, I'm sitting here with Molissa Fenley, and I want to interview you ...

Peter Petralia in conversation with Paul Benney

Invisible Messages Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by  Alison Grippo and Proto-type Theater © 2006 Paul Benney: I thought a good place to start today would...

RoseAnne Spradlin in conversation with Alejandra Martorell

Survive Cycle Thumbnail photo by Valerie B. Barnes Alejandra Martorell: I thought I would just invite you to talk about whatever aspect of the work you want to talk about: whether it’s conceptual, o...

Sarah Michelson in conversation with Tere O'Connor

Dogs Download this interview as PDF Photo by Eric McNatt, Digital Production by Elizabeth McAlevey Tere O'Connor: I'm so happy to talk to you Sarah. I didn't plan this too much because I like to just ...

Yanira Castro in conversation with Alejandra Martorell

Alejandra Martorell: I'll ask you to give a very brief bio to give some context or ground to… Yanira Castro: …who am I? Alejandra: Who are you? Yanira: I was born in Puerto Rico, came here when I was ...

iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 2

iLAB Collaborative Residency Movement Warm Up Hope took the group through a warm up in Studio #1 at Trisha Brown Studios on West 55th Street. The room was infused with light despite the industrial w...

iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 6

iLAB Collaborative Residency Engagement with Public #1 Under a blue sky dotted with lumpy cumulus, Hope and Michelle welcomed the gathered participants in Bryant Park at 41st and 6th Avenue. To star...

iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 5

iLAB Collaborative Residency The Beginning The participants gathered sitting on the floor in a loose circle in Studio #4 of Trisha Brown Studios. It is an interior studio with no natural light. Of t...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Alejandra Martorell

I tend to latch on to something visible and repeatable from an experience, in order to fool myself into thinking that I got it. Yesterday I sat down for a few minutes to meditate using my ears and the...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Biba Bell

Thinking about sound and movement: Often times when I'm dancing I experience this sense of conversation, of  dialogue -- drawing me into the moment, the space, relationships, etc.  Working on the iLa...

iLab: Feedback/Final Impressions: Laura Hymers

From the first day of iLab, I had great respect for the investigative, supportive, and creative environment Michelle and Hope established. It was evident that you respect each other as artists/collab...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Rebecca Wender

For me this process was most unique in how it simultaneously nurtured me as a person and artist and pushed me to reach outside my comfort zone with my perception and my body. I think this is an ideal ...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Robbie Cook

Although, for various reasons, I was only able to be there the first week sans both soundwalks, it was a great lab for getting back into a personal practice of being. I was really inspired by the ope...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Yves Musard

Just wanted to add to the correspondence some thoughts that came to me after our two week laboratory. It is still quite early this morning, just after the last star vanished. Leaving tomorrow to Fran...

Artists/Curators Series: Chase Granoff and Chris Peck in conversation with Levi Gonzalez

Live Sh-- Thumbnail photo by Chris Peck Download this interview as PDF Levi: Okay! So I’m here interviewing Chris Peck and Chase Granoff, who are the organizers of “Live Shit”—that’s the name you...

Artists/Curators Series: Rebecca Brooks, Beth Gill, and Isabel Lewis in conversation with Levi Gonzalez

Movement Research Festival 2007 Download this interview as PDF Listen to this interview Levi Gonzalez: Four choreographers sitting in a room! [laughter] So, I’m sitting with Isabel Lewis, Rebecca...

DD Dorvillier and Zeena Parkins in conversation with Danielle Goldman, Trajal Harrell, and Alejandra Martorell

Nottthing Is Importanttt Listen to Part 1 of this interview Listen to Part 2 of this interview Listen to Part 3 of this interview Listen to Part 4 of this interview   Download Part 1 as a Podcas...

Responses: Koosil-ja's Dance Without Bodies

by Rachel Bernsen I was mesmerized by Koosil-ja's Dance Without Bodies, performed at The Kitchen in December 2006. What really stuck out was Koosil-ja and Melissa Guerrero's absolute focus on multipl...

Responses: Tere O'Connor's Baby

by Abigail Levine I usually go about creating performance material with the aim of making an audience think, but I have come to realize that, as an audience member, I am most affected by dance that m...

Responses: The Sixth Borough

by Jonah Bokaer The first thing I hear after exiting the building is a loud police siren. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is closing down for the day, and I'm lugging a bunch of pro...

Responses: RoseAnne Spradlin's NOVA

by Michael Helland Two words: "F*** You" over and over and over again. Okay, so this was actually in the tail end of 2005 – NOVA by RoseAnne Spradlin. A looping cascade of performers traverse a woode...

Responses: Best Performances of 2006 by people who aren't my friends

by Chrysa Parkinson INCUBATOR, by Philipp Gehmacher, premiered 2006 performed by: Sabina Holzer, David Subal, Clara Cornil and Philipp Gehmacher Like having your brain licked by distant rabbits. A f...

Responses: Yvonne Meier's This is not a Pink Pony

by Melanie Maar Experiencing immediacy, aliveness. The dancers engaging fully in potentially dangerous operations with jump ropes, their bodies, gravity and the first row audience. Immediate, live, a...

Responses: There are places I remember...

by Sarah Maxfield I fell in love with performance because of its ability to transport me to another place. As a kid in the Midwest, I could find this transformative magic in the touring company of a ...

Levi Gonzalez in conversation with Heather Olson

Clusterfuck Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Tasha Roth Heather Olson: Okay, Levi… Levi Gonzalez: Yes. Heather: You just had a show, Clusterfuck. What ideas are you working on in i...

Trajal Harrell in conversation with Allison Farrow

Showpony Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: David Bergé Allison Farrow: Start with ‘it’s such a beautiful community of people.’ [Laughs] Trajal Harrell: It’s such a beautiful communi...

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad in conversation with Justin Jones

Holdiay House #2 Listen to this interview Holiday House #1 interview by Justin Jones Thumbnail photo: Sean Smuda Justin Jones: Hi, this is Justin Jones sitting down with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ra...

Jennifer Allen in conversation with Jeff Larson

Open Thumbnail photo: Jennifer Allen Jeff Larson: Okay, here we go! So, to begin with, very broadly, what would you say you are working with in this process? Jennifer Allen: I started with this ...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Lise Brenner

I appreciated how carefully [Michelle and Hope] worked to make this an evolving  experience that stayed true to both of your interests, and also took into  account the feedback of the group. That wor...

iLand: Impressions from Jennifer Monson

Some notes after Friday, September 22nd Discussion with iLAB participants. We sat at the park by the East River in LIC on the grass and on a stonewall. Bright sun and clear skies and a breeze. Loud so...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: P.A.R.T.S. #1

Bio and Links Milka Djordjevich is a dance artist and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised by Serbian parents in Long Beach, California and received her B.A. in World Arts & C...

Correspondence from Levi Gonzalez: Thoughts on Springdance Dialogue

The US component of the Netherlands’ highly regarded Springdance festival is a multinational partnership between Springdance, Dance Theater Workshop, and Dance Agency TSEH in Moscow. For a two–week pe...

Correspondence from Kate Mattingly

Sanctuary I moved to Europe six months ago, with an article written by Gia Kourlas about the lack of a dance capital today still fresh in my mind. The longer I live abroad, the more I see the truth i...

Charlotte Gibbons in conversation with K.J. Holmes

Disappearing, Never Ending, Return Download this conversation as PDF Thumbnail photo: Zach Zieman K.J. Holmes: Hi, Charlotte Gibbons. Charlotte Gibbons: Hi, K.J. Holmes. K.J.: So, I'm here to in...

David Neumann, Karinne Keithley, and Ruthie Epstein in conversation with Alejandra Martorell

feedforward Download this interview as PDF Listen to this interview Thumbnail photo by Richard Termine Alejandra Martorell: One question I have is what does the process of working on this piece...

Taking the Imperfect Leap

by Clarinda Mac Low This is the beginning of an investigation. My advance publicity said that I would use this blog to explore the traces that performance leaves behind, both temporary and permanent....

Going to Church

by Clarinda Mac Low Just about a week ago I was walking around on a Sunday morning, seeing, as one usually does on a Sunday morning in my neighborhood, people walking to and from church. As I watched...

From the Inside Out

by Clarinda Mac Low For the first few posts on this blog, I spoke of the effect of performance from the outside in, as a spectator. However, I am also a practitioner, and recently I had a performance...

Beginning the Investigation

by Clarinda Mac Low Happy New Year. I have had the following thoughts rattling around in my head for a while, and I am finally bringing them out. What do we take away from performance? I begin the i...

What's In a Name?

by Clarinda Mac Low I haven’t written in a long time—it’s been an eventful couple of months. However, not writing doesn’t equal not thinking feeling watching and thinking some more. I have a whole ho...

Larissa Velez in conversation with Hilary Clark

Making Ends Meet Thumbnail photo by Robert Nieves Download this interview as PDF Hilary Clark: Hi Larissa. It’s nice to be talking with you. You just performed Making Ends Meet at Food for Thought ...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS - Introduction

by Milka Djordjevich Through my artist residency at Movement Research, I have the unique opportunity to be a guest student at PARTS in Brussels for one month. From what I know, I don’t think there ha...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS - Vincent Dunoyer, "Sister"

by Milka Djordjevich I was recommended to see Sister at the Kaaitheater, choreographed by Vincent Dunoyer, particularly because he will teach a workshop that I will take at PARTS. I went to see the p...

Beth Gill in conversation with Yasuko Yokoshi

Eleanor & Eleanor Download this interview as PDF Beth Gill: I was going to say that I think this work is bringing up a lot that I feel I need to be doing with my work, but that probably won't ge...

Victoria Marks in correspondence with Daniel Linehan

Not About Iraq Thumbnail photo: Steve Gunther Daniel Linehan | 2.22.08 Hi, it's Daniel, and I'm very excited to be doing an email interview with you for Critical Correspondence. Let me start by sa...

Yvonne Rainer in conversation with Laura Diffenderfer

RoS Indexical Download this interview as PDF Laura Diffenderfer: So, I am hoping you can tell me a little bit about the creation of RoS Indexical. How did the piece come about? What was the process ...

Maria Hassabi in conversation with Cristiane Bouger (via email)

GLORIA Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Justin Bernhaut Cristiane Bouger: After Still Smoking, what were the driving elements in the creation of this piece and how did you come up...

Jérôme Bel in conversation with Becky Hilton

Pichet Klunchun and Myself Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Jerome Bel Becky Hilton: So Jerome, your trip was good? Jerome Bel: Bangkok was all right. Becky: Were you doing Pi...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS #2

Introduction Through my artist residency at Movement Research, I have the unique opportunity to be a guest student at PARTS in Brussels for one month. From what I know, I don’t think there has been a...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: P.A.R.T.S. #3

Vincent Dunoyer's Sister I was recommended to see Sister at the Kaaitheater, choreographed by Vincent Dunoyer, particularly because he will teach a workshop that I will take at PARTS. I went to see t...

Correspondence from Milka Djordjevich: PARTS #4 - "Why We Love Action"

Mette Ingvartsen's Why We Love Action On November 23rd I went to Leuven, Belgium (1/2 hour from Brussels) with some classmates from PARTS to see Why We Love Action at a theater called STUK. The work ...

Correspondence from Daniel Linehan: Thoughts About "Not About"

The following are excerpts I’ve selected from my journal, writings that I have made while working on creating my solo, “Not About Everything.” They are not about my creative process so much as a way o...

Lisa Nelson in conversation with Lisa Nelson

What do I teach? Laboratory: Tuning Scores—Composition, Communication, and the Sense of Imagination. This research focuses on the physical base of the imagination. As dance is the medium of my study...

Moving Pictures

by Clarinda Mac Low In this quest to determine the traces of performance, one of the most important questions is…what is performance, anyway? This is a mushy question, and even attempting to answer ...

Performing Citizenship

by Clarinda Mac Low A few weeks ago it dawned on me just how profoundly alienated I was from the government of the United States, the nation of which I am a citizen. This feeling has been with me for...

Feeling Space

by Clarinda Mac Low Last Sunday I was eating Thai food with my friend James when, suddenly, I lost my sense of spatial perception. Everything in front of me looked flat and stubbornly two-dimensional...

Creating an Atmosphere

by Clarinda Mac Low A hill, a lot of barking dogs, a funeral home, a chilly little hut, a modern rickshaw. How do you set a scene? A select group of people, a secret instruction, a cinematic purvie...

Feeling Space Part II

by Clarinda Mac Low Today, we wander. Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian philosopher from the early twentieth century, wrote a series of “Remarks on Colour,” some of his last writings before death. In...

Laughter (revised)

by Clarinda Mac Low “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”* When humor comes up in a performance, a momentary transformation takes place, an alchemy of opening. Suddenly the space b...

MR Festival 2008: 24 x 4 x 4 by 1

by Eva Yaa AsantewaaMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There This morning, from my friend Serge in Paree, I receive the following wonderful explanation: "Esprit d'escalier (meaning: what comes u...

MR Festival 2008: 24x4x4—48 (or so) hours later

by Megan NicelyMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There The questions began to flood in during the last piece: How can groups of people enter into the same dream (or was this only a 60s phenomena...

MR Festival 2008: catch 30

by Barry HoggardMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There As someone who likes to see the latest in dance (and dance / theater), I love events like "catch 30" (www.catchseries.org) that let me see...

MR Festival 2008: Dance for Music: Five Leading Run-on Questions About Music for Dance

by Chris PeckMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There I've been attending contemporary dance performances and collaborating with choreographers as a composer for nearly ten years now, and I have ...

MR Festival 2008: Transversality Lab: An Austrian/NYC Exchange

by Jenn JoyMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There The Transversality Lab will take place on Monday, June 2nd, during the Movement Research Spring Festival 2008: Somewhere Out There. It is a col...

MR Festival 2008: I archive, you archive, we archive. by Ana Isabel Keilson

by Ana Isabel KeilsonMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Some thoughts on how we can rethink what it means to archive and document our work and our community: 1. The film screening last Tue...

MR Festival 2008: Said/Unsaid by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

by Eva Yaa AsantewaaMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There I left close to 4pm. So, I'm not sure if Saturday's circle in dialogue at Judson ever got around to directly addressing moderator Rebe...

MR Festival 2008: The 80's and 90's On Screen - Dance Relics by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

by Eva Yaa AsantewaaMR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Judson Church's gym. Engulfed by this metallic, swarming roar with an uncanny, regular pulse. Maybe a hundred dancers talking all at o...

MR Festival 2008: Somewhere Out There - MR Spring Festival 2008

Monday, May 26 - Sunday, June 8, 2008 movement research spring festival 2008: Somewhere Out There Two weeks of performances, excursions, and experiences in, around, and away from Judson Memorial Chu...

In conversation with choreograph.net: Introduction

In April 2008, CC co-editor Levi Gonzalez contacted choreograph.net editor Jeffrey Gormly to establish a collaborative project between the two publications and their mother organizations - Movement Re...

In Conversation with choreograph.net: A Point of Departure

Dear Jeff, Levi and Chase, i'm excited about building a dialogue between organizations, publications and people at last. thank you! i've included Chase in this email in case you have thoughts on oth...

In Conversation with choreograph.net: metalogue first movement, from Jeff Gormly

Here is where I'm going to pick up our conversation, from Alejandra's email: **more on the conceptual side, and possibly related to the previous topic, I'm impressed by Daghdha's capacity to state vi...

In Conversation with choreograph.net: An Invitation

Hi Jeffrey We received your contact information from Chase Granoff, who told us of your interest in some kind of collaboration with the website administered through Movement Research in NYC - Critica...

In Conversation with choreograph.net: First Response

hi levi, many thanks for your email. i had frankly given up on you guys, so this a really pleasant surprise. i had one bright idea while taking with chase: we are currently developing this site re co...

Dewey Dell (Agata Castellucci, Demetrio Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci and Eugenio Resta) in conversation with Mark McCloughan

Named for the small girl in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, the members of Dewey Dell are a collective of theatre artists from Cesena, Italy. In September they made their U.S. debut at Wesleyan University'...

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Festival Spring 2016: Hand Written Note(s)

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The Movement Research Festival Spring 2017: surprise! surprise(!) surprise/! surprise is curated by Laurie Berg, Monstah Black, and Amy Khoshbin.  In the middle of the intersection we met, simultaneou...

MELT Summer 2017

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer (5 weeks) and winter (3 weeks). Taught by Movement Research’s int...

Art Stations Foundation

Bunker

CounterPulse

LAUKKU

Station – Service for contemporary dance

Domino

Derida Dance Center and Art Link Foundation

Gabriela Tudor Foundation

CounterPulse

Zil Culture Centre

Lokomotiva

Exodos

Festival Fall 2017: invisible material

Artist-curators Jonathan Gonzalez, Zavé Martohardjono, and EmmaGrace Skove-Epes approach Movement Research’s Fall Festival by considering collective practices and the workings of collectivity amidst e...

Mana Contemporary

HOWL! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project

C'mon Everybody

Asian Cultural Council

CEC Arts Link

Howard Gillman Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

MELT Winter 2018

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer (5 weeks) and winter (4 weeks). Taught by Movement Research’s int...

Location TBA

MELT Summer 2018

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recogni...

Movement Research

Studio Rental Information Movement Research offers $10/hr space for rehearsal to independent dance artists and dance companies in both of our two studios at 150 First Avenue. Rehearsal space is made ...

MELT Winter 2019

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recogni...

Festival Fall 2018: MR at 40: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Movement Research Fall Festival 2018: MR at 40: Looking Back, Looking Forward Click on the above schedule tab for a full list of performances, classes, talks, events and workshops that take place as a...

MR, 122CC – Courtyard Studio

Studio Rental InformationMovement Research offers $10/hr space for rehearsal to independent dance artists and dance companies in both of our two studios at 150 First Avenue. The Courtyard Studio is 96...

MR, 122CC – Ninth Street Studio

Studio Rental Information Movement Research offers $10/hr space for rehearsal to independent dance artists and dance companies in both of our two studios at 150 First Avenue. The Ninth Street Studio i...

MELT Summer 2019

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recogni...

The Sounding Body

The Sounding Body is a series of weekly workshops investigating voice and movement. This series typically spans ten weeks, and takes place in both the Fall and Spring seasons. See below for more deta...

Dance NYC

Trust for Mutual Understanding

The New York Community Trust

Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund

Mary Duke Biddle Foundation

Winter MELT 2020

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recogni...

[Virtual] Festival 2020-2021

About Movement Research Festivals: Movement Research Festivals, curated by a team of artists, explore contemporary dance forms through performances, classes, workshops, and discursive events. MR Festi...

[Virtual] MELT Summer 2020

[Virtual] MELT Summer 2020 offers workshops via Zoom with Movement Research’s internationally recognized faculty. Register today! Drop-ins are not available for MELT workshops. About MELT: MELT Inten...

Festival Fall 2019: ComeUnion

Thank you for joining us for Movement Research Fall 2019 Festival, co-curated by Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Jaime Ortega, and iele paloumpis. The Fall 2019 Festival ComeUnion was curated around the int...

[Virtual] MELT Winter 2021

[Virtual] MELT Winter 2021 offers workshops via Zoom with Movement Research’s internationally recognized faculty. Registration is OPEN! Drop-ins are not available for MELT workshops. About MELT: MELT...

Covid Safety Protocols

COVID-19 Safety Protocols at Movement ResearchUpdated as of February 15, 2023 As variants continue to arise and circumstances around the virus shift, MR’s COVID protocols are subject to change. If cir...

[Virtual] MELT Winter 2022

December 29, 2021: Safety Notice The Movement Research team is assessing the current Omicron variant alert and the increase of Covid-19 cases in New York City. In order to keep our dance community saf...

Coming Together: Nurture, Nourish, Sustain

Coming Together: Nurture, Nourish, Sustain is a series of in-person and online events that will take place progressively during the 2021/2022 season. How do we come together in the midst of ongoing ch...

Gibney 280 Broadway (Chamber St. Entrance)

MELT Summer 2022

Covid-19 Safety NoticeUpdated July 20, 2022 New York City is currently experiencing HIGH transmission levels of COVID-19. For Week Three of MELT (July 25-29), Movement Research will require all partic...

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS LAB 2022

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS LAB 2022Facilitated by Peter Sciscioli with members of the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC)** 8/12/22 UPDATE **Due to COVID-related circumstances, all w...

Ruth Foundations for the Art

MELT Winter 2023

COVID-19 Safety Protocols All individuals participating in an in-person workshop at a Movement Research location must: 1. Be fully vaccinated (i.e., two weeks following receiving both doses of a two-d...

Become a Capital Campaign Supporter

In 2018, after nearly 40 years as an itinerant organization, Movement Research moved into its first long-term home at 122 Community Center (122CC) in New York City's East Village. The 122CC facilities...

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Festival Spring 2016 Studies Project

Curated by Aretha Aoki, Elliott Jenetopulos, Eleanor Smith and Tara Aisha Willis

MR @ Judson – May 16th

Alex Escalante**, Ainesh Madan, Mor Mendel, Nami Yamamoto**

MR @ Judson – May 23

BOOMERANG, Erin Ellen Kelly**, maybe, Pontus Pettersson

Antonio-Krais

This lab will begin with gentle floor work based on the Feldenkrais Method®. It will be followed by a slow movement exploration affording each individual the opportunity to listen to what is within th...

The Present Place an improvisation for lasting action

Contributions by: Justin Cabrillos, Anna Carapetyan, Ayano Elson, Marguerite Hemmings, Michael Mahalchick, Sarah Maxfield, BASHIR DAVIID NAIM, Marissa Perel, Randy Reyes, Lily Bo Shapiro, Anna Adams S...

Ori Flomin

Class is about our physicality. With a functional warm-up, we ready our bodies and minds by focusing on alignment, clarity, ease and space for sensation and feedback from our bodies. Through phrase wo...

Togetheringmaking, working, eating, and showing

10 AM – 8 PM volunteering at BkSD (in two hour slots) Volunteer Day, Dinner, and Performance 8 PM AT BROOKLYN STUDIOS FOR DANCE$10 / DINNER & PERFORMANCE Contributions b...

Rename and Unbody: Somatic Awareness and Language for Who and What We Are

This workshop is for those who seek to find a space and a language for a self that is not “fixed” – i.e. constrained to norms of identity such as gender or ability. How can we establish terms for our ...

Healthy Skin from the Inside Out: An Ayurvedic Approach to Skincare

Whether you experience acne, eczema, psoriasis, dry skin or any number of common skin-related ailments, these all stem from various imbalances in the body. Ayurveda teaches us that healthy skin comes ...

Reconnect Somatic Therapy

This workshop uses meditation, movement, contact and dialogue in a one-on-one individual session. This work emphasizes the importance of bringing our attention to what’s happening now, specifically in...

Being a Body Out Loud: Trans-Indigenous and Political Practices for Artists and Activists seeking radical moves in their work, art, lives

This physical practice is grounded in indigenous healing intelligences and African Diasporic performance aesthetics, designed to catalyze your activist, performance, and creative practices through rig...

Healing an Icon? Performance/Talk/Open Dialogue

In this gathering, performance is placed within the context of the Festival’s Healing Day.The event takes place in the intimacy of the dance studio in order to take a deeper look at the public act of ...

Rupture: Improvising In the Break

We practice performance training rooted in inquiry where we rigorously apply transgressive politics and physically embodied ruptures to sustain movement practice. We interrupt our own improvised dance...

Enclosures for reading and responding

Poetic respondents include mayfield brooks, Justin Cabrillos, Marguerite Hemmings, Sarah Maxfield, and Ni’Ja Whitson. Self-care, utopian visions, poetic and emotional labor, porous and transient stru...

history/mystery/periphery/party

Offerings from Jonathan Gonzalez, Michael Mahalchick, Lily Bo Shapiro, and Social Health Performance Club (Ivy Castellanos, Ayana Evans, Zachary Fabri, Maria Hupfield, Geraldo Mercado). This performa...

REVEL

Hosted by Becca Blackwell and BASHIR DAVIID NAIM with special guest performances in a nonlinear fashion. Sometimes self-care means dance party. Let’s come together to celebrate bodies in space. Let’s...

Movement Research Gala 2016

Honoring Anita Durst and Nicky Paraiso 6pm - Cocktails 7pm - Dinner8:30pm - Performances followed by Dance Party featuring performances byMark Bennett, David Cale, Yoshiko Chuma, Simon Cour...

Kat Galasso Space Rental

Space Rental: Carl Williamson

MELT "Movie" Night

Hosted by a different MELT teaching artist each week, the MELT “movie night” series features work on video that inspires, influences, engages and/or represents that artist's current creative process a...

Studio Rental

MELT Reading Group

Affect and Environs: to live is to leave traces This reading group triangulates three poetic though potentially unrelated texts. First, a manifesto of the tropical museum that intervenes against a hi...

MELT Reading Group

Interview affairs with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson Myriam Van Imschoot proposes her upcoming interview publication Conversations in Vermont as a springboard into a discussion about the interview as ...

MELT "Movie" Night

Hosted by a different MELT teaching artist each week, the MELT “movie night” series features work on video that inspires, influences, engages and/or represents that artist's current creative process a...

MELT "Movie" Night

Hosted by a different MELT teaching artist each week, the MELT “movie night” series features work on video that inspires, influences, engages and/or represents that artist's current creative process a...

MELT "Movie" Night

Hosted by a different MELT teaching artist each week, the MELT “movie night” series features work on video that inspires, influences, engages and/or represents that artist's current creative process a...

MELT Reading Group

to do what we have made What race and gender boundaries are re-authored in claiming authorship of choreography? What embodied and social limits do freedom and choice-making in improvisation conceal? ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church 25th Anniversary Performance

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Movement Research at the Judson Church series. It is also the 25th anniversary of the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program!  Join us for this spec...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Greer Dworman

Open Performance

Judah Levenson and Hank Mason Liz Charkymoderator: Greer DwormanA program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of ...

Open Performance

Rhea Daniels Emma KimballSarah McCafferyModerated by Laurel Atwell** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at al...

Open Performance

Mauri Connors Aimee Plauche & Performers Lone King [Projects by Marissa Brown] Moderated by Camilo Godoy* A program of non-curated shared showings of ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Keith's Studio Rental

FALL 2016 / WINTER 2017 SEASON starts September 6!

Our Fall 2016 / Winter 2017 Season starts September 6 and runs through January. All fall classes and events will be announced shortly!

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Fall Festival | Installation: Movement Research at the Judson Church

An installation designed by Okwui Okpokwasili in collaboration with the curators and created to feature the festival’s participating artists in live, intimate portraits. Part of Movement Research Fes...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Writing for People Who Like to Move

Sense Writing is an approach to creative writing that merges principles of Somatic Education into the art of writing. The lab will combine movement and writing sequences to guide participants to refin...

Mushroom Molecule

The practice underlying my work involves writing, visualization, and sensory exploration. In this Process Lab, I will guide participants through an investigation of how complex movement structures evo...

The Alchemy of Objects or The Quest for the Universal Elixir

Participants will engage in an “alchemical" practice with everyday objects in the interest of yielding a "universal elixir” or viable content for movement-based performance. Participants will investig...

FORM—FROM

FORM—FROM is a love fest and takedown of abstract form. We'll see how much we can create and how many meanings we can pull from the simplest forms while being attentive to what gets left out as well...

ritual/protest/action/concentrated circles/dreaming/doing/radical art making

In ritual/protest/action/concentrated circles/dreaming/doing/radical art making The body makes itself vapor Or it is before it can be Our time together will conjure Locate Shape Shifting ...

Listening with the Voice

How can the act of listening be the impetus for making a sound, and a sound in turn serve the other’s capacity to hear? In this lab we will learn fragments of a composition for voice, drawn from Ind...

Open Performance

Gillian Chadsey Jenni Hong Heather Stewart moderator: Kate Watson-Wallace** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artist...

Open Performance

Eli Condon Natalie Johnson Dance Keelie Sheridan moderator: Angie Pittman** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all sta...

Open Performance

Tamia Ruiz Andrade Samantha Bergman Amelia Tarpey Moderator: Hadar Ahuvia* A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at al...

Open Performance

Gabrielle D'Angelo Proteo Media + Performance,  Mariah Maloney moderator: Kim Brandt** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artist...

Open Performance

Charlie Maybee/The Tap Awareness Project maya + rouvelle  Rebecca A. Ferrell/FDANCE moderator: Jennifer Rosenblit* A program of non-curated shared showings of exper...

Open Performance

Camilla Maria Davis  Leanna Grennan  moderator: Gwen Welliver* A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their...

Open Performance

Kimberleigh Costanzo  Samantha Lysaght  Thea Little moderator: Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at...

Open Performance

Lauren Butler  Chris Ferris & Dancers  maddie schimmel  moderator: Vicky Shick* A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by arti...

Open Performance

Kelley Donovan,  Eli Tamondong / Projectile Imagery,  Trio Z moderator: Alexandra Tatarsky** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by art...

Open Performance

Kit Stanley/KICKSTANDcollaborative  Krissy Harris/Krissy and the Works  Meghan Frederick Performance Projects  moderator: Nia Love** A program of non-curated shared showings of e...

Open Performance

Sean Thomas Boyt Hadley Smith Mindy Toro moderator: Parijat Desai** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of the...

Open Performance

Leah Barber  Dana Florin-Weiss and Hannah Verrill  Sandra Kramerova moderator: Ursula Eagly* A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progres...

Open Performance

Angie Muzzy  Renee Gerardo/ Dances  Waeli Wang moderator: Molly Poerstel* A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all s...

Back to School with Teaching Artists

Calling all teaching artists, past, present and future. Using the context of the Movement Research lineage and community as a base to move out from, this roundtable discussion is an opportunity for te...

Does the Dance Field Make Room for Parenting?

We will discuss and examine the culture around child-rearing in our field - in what ways do structures and attitudes in the field integrate and invite this choice and in what ways do they, often uncon...

Diversity and Accountability: A conversation with the MR Artists of Color Council

The artists driving this new Movement Research initiative open their current conversations to a wider audience, sharing thoughts on the Council’s mission and their experiences as artists of color with...

Fall Festival | Financial and Personal Wellness in Dance: A Panel Discussion

A panel discussion moderated by Kay Takeda, Director of Grants & Services at Lower Manhattan Cultural CouncilPanelists: Aaron Mattocks, Juliana May, Katy Pyle, Antonio Ramos Since the development ...

Rename and Unbody

This class is for those who seek to find a space for a self that is not "fixed" - i.e. constrained to norms of identity such as gender or ability. How can we establish terms for our many selves that l...

Klein Technique™

The work in class engages us in a process that facilitates changes in the way we see, use, and relate to our bodies moving in space. We work with the deep connections in the pelvis, freeing the upper ...

Klein Technique™

The work in class engages us in a process that facilitates changes in the way we see, use, and relate to our bodies moving in space. We work with the deep connections in the pelvis, freeing the upper ...

Klein Technique™

The work in class engages us in a process that facilitates changes in the way we see, use, and relate to our bodies moving in space. We work with the deep connections in the pelvis, freeing the upper ...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

Shake/Walk

Taking two everyday forms of movement, we will allow these forms to disorganize within, and be disorganizing of, our bodies. The sensations that arise within this body matrix range from chaotic to cat...

Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a partnering dance form that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and suppor...

Feldenkrais®

The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. The method emphasizes awarenes...

Klein Technique™

The work in class engages us in a process that facilitates changes in the way we see, use, and relate to our bodies moving in space. We work with the deep connections in the pelvis, freeing the upper ...

Fall Festival | Screening: Non-Dance, Dance Film

The inspiration to move is not always a mirrored phenomenon. In cinema, the rhythm of editing, the space of framing, the clarity of focus, the influence of sound, and the permission to experiment with...

Fall Festival | Eco-Performance

How can live performance engage an audience in complex global issues while maintaining artistic integrity? Inspired by a presentation of research on climate change, participants will work collaborativ...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

Fall Festival | Featured Artists’ Performances

The ideas for this festival came from our asking ourselves what it is to be dancers/performers/collaborators/interpreters rather than dance “makers” and to be the bodies that contain the lineage of wo...

Fall Festival | Featured Artists’ Performances

The ideas for this festival came from our asking ourselves what it is to be dancers/performers/collaborators/interpreters rather than dance “makers” and to be the bodies that contain the lineage of wo...

Morning Class

We will use both improvisational scores and simple set exercises to find awareness, connection, and articulation in our movement. We will learn a phrase and mess with it, by aiming at it and failing a...

Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #49 Release Party

Join us to celebrate the release of Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #49 with Cover Artist Trajal Harrell!  Meet and mingle with the Movement Research Performance Journal editorial team an...

Investigating Ballet NYC

This is a workshop for dancers who are shy about the form. Perhaps they have had bad experiences in their pasts and given up on the value this form can have for them. By deconstructing movement into t...

Klein™/Barre

Our time in this class will be devoted to the application of the essential principles of Klein Technique™ as it relates to dance. The class facilitates fuller use of the ball and socket joints and the...

wall, floor, ceiling: composing in improvisation

Through years of choreographing and studying improvisation, my class explores compositional skills via improvisations in the goal of igniting our imaginations. Each class builds on a theme of allowing...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Open Performance

Nicole Colbert Dance CompanyAnn-Marie Gover and Vince JohnsonRoxy + Company moderator: Alice MacDonald A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at al...

The Edge is a Field

Some are drawn to the edge. Movement Research attracts these individuals. I have tilled strategies for turning the edge into fields of activity and its artifacts are what I can offer.This workshop is ...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Open Performance

Stephanie Kies Eva Schmidt Chloe Calderon Chotrani moderator: Laurel Atwell** A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their develop...

Open Performance

Allison Blakeney Johanna S Meyer Gabriela Silva moderator: Tara Sheena A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their development. T...

Movement Research at the Judson Church

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 ...

Open Performance

Kathleen DaltonLes ballets nomadesVanessa Long Dance Company moderator: Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stage...

Sunday Process Lab [CANCELLED]

THIS SUNDAY PROCESS LAB HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  Citation and Appropriation can be generative tools in the creative process. They can also be exploitative procedures when they compromise the agency of the...

Sunday Process Lab

Collaborators André M. Zachery (choreographer/media artist) and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (composer/sound + media artist) will facilitate a lab on three artistic elements: creating from source materia...