Pyeng Threadgill

Pyeng Threadgill creates unique music and movement experiences for audiences and students alike. An accomplished voice and movement teacher, she integrates Mindful Movement, vocal technique and perfor...

Marisa Michelson

Composer/Singer MARISA MICHELSON is a multi-award winning writer of interdisciplinary music-theatre, choral work, and musicals, and is the founder of Constellation Chor | An Immersion in Voice, Moveme...

Anaïs Maviel

Anaïs Maviel is a vocalist, percussionist, composer, writer and community facilitator. Her work focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation, and creat...

UFlyMothership (collaboration duo Tendayi Kuumba & Greg Purnell)

UFlyMothership is a collaboration duo, Tendayi Kuumba & Greg Purnell, who are both artists in their own right. UFlymothership grew from ideas, curiosities, & celebrations of the Unidentified F...

Odeya Nini

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary vocalist, composer, embodied voice teacher and yoga instructor. Her artistic work ranges from orchestral music to sound installations and healing Vo...

Peter Sciscioli

Peter Sciscioli is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. He has been leading classes and workshops with h...

Tatyana Tenenbaum

Tatyana Tenenbaum (USA) is a choreographer and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her research seeks to bring sensational practices of music and movement into the same phenomenal body. She has presented ...

mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks improvises while black, and is currently based in brooklyn, new york on lenapehoking land, the homeland of the lenape people. mayfield is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist,...

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...

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...

Movement Scores: Salomé Navarro, Mel Stancato, Laurel Atwell, Marion Spencer, and Sigrid Lauren

The Space Speaks by Salomé Navarro This score can be explored alone or with others. It may be helpful to have one person read the score aloud while others move. The idea is to invite movers into thei...

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...

Alyssa Gersony in conversation with Simon Dove, former Director of the School of Dance at ASU

Alyssa Gersony: Dance 2050 in 2013 was a follow up symposium held at the end of May at SUNY Brockport to continue the conversations that started at the first Dance 2050 which was held in May of last y...

Simone Forti in Conversation with Jennie Goldstein

Jennie Goldstein: Hello, Simone. Let’s talk a little bit about your upcoming retrospective, Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion, which opens on July 18 at the Museum der Mo...

Simone Forti in Conversation with Jennie Goldstein

Jennie Goldstein: Hello, Simone. Let’s talk a little bit about your upcoming retrospective, Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion, which opens on July 18 at the Museum der Mo...

Some Thoughts on Capital-D Dance

I frequently think about how to dance, how I choose to dance, how we choose to dance. I think about how my body is feeling, what I’ve trained it to do, why. I think about the privilege, the hours spen...

Rosie Herrera in conversation with Celeste Fraser Delgado

Celeste Fraser Delgado: Rosie, you’re from a place called Hialeah, can you tell us about Hialeah and how it has shaped your work? Rosie Herrera: I always answer this by saying that I’m not just from H...

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...

Leslie Cuyjet in Conversation with Jessie Young

Jessie Young: I’m seeing a lot of things right now as choreographic provocations. And I should define what I think of when I say “choreographic.” I think of a structure that defines itself for itself,...

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...

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...

[CANCELED] The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

This workshop is intended for anyone wanting to go sound exploring in search of their free, powerful and authentic voice. Using the principles of awareness and slowing down from the Alexander Techniqu...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

[email protected] – The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this class we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in-between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one app...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any creative background. My practice has emerged over the past decade in response to disconnects in my own body, mind and hea...

Morning Class

Morning Class: How to ParLAY the Dance Fall 2019 class dates: 9/26, 9/30, 11/1, 12/13, 12/20 This workshop is inspired by mayfield’s ongoing, life long project and movement practice, Improvising While...

Morning Class

Morning Class: How to ParLAY the Dance Fall 2019 class dates: 9/26, 9/30, 11/1, 12/13, 12/20 This workshop is inspired by mayfield’s ongoing, life long project and movement practice, Improvising While...

Morning Class

Morning Class: How to ParLAY the Dance Fall 2019 class dates: 9/26, 9/30, 11/1, 12/13, 12/20 This workshop is inspired by mayfield’s ongoing, life long project and movement practice, Improvising Whil...

The Sounding Body: EMBODYING ANCESTRY, EMBODYING SOUND

In this workshop we will explore various approaches to access your vocal freedom, power and authentic expression. Come for a sound and movement journey using the principles of awareness and mindfulnes...

The Sounding Body: Voicing Coexistence

I offer a workshop around the use of the voice as a liberating music instrument. Voice as a tool to ground in ancestral practices as well as to explore societal and futurist narratives. Drawing from d...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. For this one-time offering, we’ll tune into how we breathe and how breath can move ...

Fall Festival | ¿Cómo desnudarse?... many layers to unveil beyond clothing

Centered in consent, we will explore diverse dynamics that enable healing, playfulness and the unveiling of physical and emotional layers. We will start by engaging in deep listening exercises, sharin...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Full and Empty

Samita Sinha will be offering this workshop via Zoom, adapting it to virtual space! Register for class here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpwlf-mgqzMuH7dO7XAuWaDe4nNmAQfdKQ Registration is requi...

[CANCELLED] The Sounding Body: Muscle Memory meditations & Sonic portals

Class is cancelled Wednesday, March 24. Register for class next week: [Virtual] The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement – Resonance with Peter Sciscioli

The Sounding Body: Gills and Bellows

How do the mechanics of my voice relate to a larger, muscular-skeletal form? We will investigate pitch, timbre and phonemic resonance as felt experiences, bringing this awareness to small, interactive...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

Voice as Movement uses an anatomical approach to the sounding body and explores movement and vocalizing as a means to expand perception and to activate space differently than movement alone. We will d...

The Sounding Body: Voice As Movement

Voice as Movement uses an anatomical approach to the sounding body and explores movement and vocalizing as a means to expand perception and to activate space differently than movement alone. We will d...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

How do the mechanics of my voice relate to a larger, muscular-skeletal form? In this approach we will use touch and imagery to investigate pitch, timbre and phonemic resonance as felt experiences.  We...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

Your voice mirrors the connection to your voice, body and truth.  This class in The Sounding Body series uses the principles of awareness and inhibition from the Alexander Technique as well as Somatic...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

This workshop is intended for anyone wanting to go sound exploring in search of their free, powerful and authentic voice. Using the principles of awareness and slowing down from the Alexander Techniqu...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

The Sounding Body: Voice As Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

Dancing magic and politics

Research and play, dancing together, in collaboration. Shared experimental practice in the blessings and crises of social relationships. Through a range of activities we'll negotiate fake and real hea...

Tendings

Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers explore Olimpias scores and insights from Tendings, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy, disability culture, eco-specific investig...

Immediate minutes/ Minuets

A two-day workshop with Jennifer Monson We will start with performing instantaneous 2 minute dances for each other. Responding with various approaches to language – descriptive, poetic, non–verbal, st...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Vibration and Creation

This workshop is for humans who want to practice singing and embodied vocal improvisation as a path to being more joyful, empowered and free. Our attention is our most precious asset. How can we use m...

The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this workshop we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one ...

The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this workshop we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one ...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Vocal Freedom

I offer a workshop around the use of the voice as a liberating music instrument. Voice as a tool to ground in ancestral practices as well as to explore societal and futurist narratives. Drawing from d...

MELT–The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this workshop we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one ...

The Sounding Body: Moving Energies and Voice Magic

This workshop is for humans who want to channel their vocal life-force energy into self-expression and channel that embodied self-expression into improvisation or composition. Our attention is our mos...

Morning Class

Morning Class: How to ParLAY the Dance Fall 2019 class dates: 9/26, 9/30, 11/1, 12/13, 12/20 This workshop is inspired by mayfield’s ongoing, life long project and movement practice, Improvising While...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Full and Empty

Samita Sinha will be offering this workshop via Zoom, adapting it to virtual space! Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdOivqjwrXB6bTxbwhZ4oPukcwCx9-g Registration is required for Mov...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

Movement Research is excited to offer this class online via Zoom. Registration is required for MR online classes. Once you register, you'll receive a link in the inbox of the email you registered with...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Vibrating the Present

Movement Research is excited to offer this class online via Zoom. Registration is required for MR online programming. Once you register, you'll receive a link to join the session. Register here: htt...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Free The Voice

Movement Research is excited to offer this class online via Zoom. Registration is required for MR online programming. Once you register, you'll receive a link to join the session. Register here: htt...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: Voicing Coexistence

Movement Research is excited to offer this class online via Zoom. Registration is required for MR online programming. Once you register, you'll receive a link to join the session. Register here: htt...

[Virtual] The Sounding Body: To Sing the Body Electric…

Movement Research is excited to offer this class online via Zoom. Registration is required for MR online programming. Once you register, you'll receive a link to join the session. Register here: htt...