Movement Research is a non-profit organization that offers dance classes, workshops, residencies and performance opportunities for artists in

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. Its focus is on improvisation, post-modern dance, and experimentation. It was founded in 1978 under the name “The School for Movement Research & Construction” and incorporated in 1980 after its first public performance in 1979. Movement Research organizes performances at the

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among other locations around New York City. It has a long tie with Judson Church and

Judson Dance Theater Judson Dance Theater was a collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City between 1962 and 1964. The artists involved were avant garde experimentalists ...

which shares some of the same base of artists. In Spring 2018, Movement Research announced they will be occupying 3 spaces in the newly renovated 122 Community Center, making 122CC Movement Research's first permanent home in their 40 year history.

Initiatives

Among Movement Research's initiatives are a weekly dance practice at

, ''Open Performance'', an open discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, ''Studies Project'', a curated series of panels, and performances focused on a variety of issues, and the two-week Movement Research Festival that explores

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and the issues around it. They also host a series of low-cost classes led by dance artists; an artist in residence program known by the name AIR; and MRX, a traveling artist in residence program.

Publications

Movement Research has two publications: '' Performance Journal'', a printed piece that focuses on current issues in performance; and ''Critical Correspondence'', a web-based publication that includes interviews, experimental and scholarly writing, podcasts and video projects. "Critical Correspondence" is currently edited by Amelia Bande and Tess Dworman.

Past participating dancers

Among dancers previously associated with Movement Research are:

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dancers ...

, David Gordon,

Ishmael Houston-Jones Ishmael Houston-Jones (born 1951) is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, curator, and arts advocate known for his improvisational dance and language work. His work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europ ...

, Mårten Spångberg,

Jennifer Monson Jennifer Monson (born March 14, 1961) is an American dancer and choreographer. She has been actively creating dance work since the 1980s. She works with dance improvisation and creates choreography that is at times improvised or devised through ...

Mary Overlie Mary Overlie (January 15, 1946 – June 5, 2020) was an American choreographer, dancer, theater artist, professor, author, and the originator of the Six Viewpoints technique for theater and dance. The Six Viewpoints technique is both a philosophi ...

Zeena Parkins Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard harp ...

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Sarah Michelson Sarah Michelson (born 1964) is a British choreographer and dancer who lives and works in New York City, New York. Her work is characterized by demanding physicality and repetition, rigorous formal structures, and inventive lighting and sound desi ...

Will Rawls Will Rawls is an American contemporary choreographer, performance artist, curator and writer based in New York City and with continuing projects in Europe. He has choreographed solo works and group works as well as danced professionally with estab ...

, Miguel Gutierrez,

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, and

Simone Forti Simone Forti (born March 25, 1935), is an American Italian Postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer. Since the 1950s, Forti has exhibited, performed, and taught workshops all over the world. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, inclu ...

References

External links

Official site
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