Movement Research Classes & Workshops

🌷 Movement Research Schedule: May 11-17, 2026 | Classes, workshops, and events! Register TODAY on our website: movementresearch.org or view our weekly newsletter #linkinbio First time taking a class with MR? Please review our locations page on our website before you join us: /classes-and-events/locations/ 💻 All virtual classes take place in (EDT). 🌱 Please note all Physical Inquiries & Somatic classes will take place at @gibneyeducation 280 Broadway 🌷Save on classes and purchase an MR class card! Class Cards: A 10-class card is available for $160, or $16/class. Class cards can be used for any classes labeled “class card eligible.” OR ⏥ on our weekly schedule released every Friday. Class cards are nonrefundable and expire 6 months after the purchase date. If you encounter any issues with purchasing or using your class card, please email [email protected] 🏢FREE & Donation Based EVENTS!! 7pm | Movement Research at the Judson Church 6:30-8pm | Studies Project: When Disabled Embodiment Is the Center. An Open Discussion on Pedagogy, Access, and the Body as Knowledge, Kayla Hamilton [ID and photo credit: 1.Photo from the 2025 Summer MELT workshop with Neil Greenberg. A dancer balances on with their upper back pressed into the floor while their legs reach upwards in a split. Photo by Rachel Keane. 2. Class calendar. 3. Class calendar]

😎WEEK 4: JULY 27-31! MELT Registration is open NOW!! Learn more and register on our website: /melt What is MELT? MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. These workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. *Workshop will take place over Zoom Week 4: Jul 27-31 10am-12pm | Angie Pittman @angellaellaella 12-1pm EDT * | Petra Kuppers @petraturtledisco 1-3pm | mayfield brooks @mayfieldbrookz 3:30-6pm | Neil Greenberg @neilgberg MELT Event with Angie Pittman | Thu, Jul 30, 2026 | 6:30-8pm ID: Summer MELT 2025 with mayfield brooks, 2 participants. Photo by Rachel Keane.

🌷Movement Research Schedule: May 18 - 24, 2026 | Classes, workshops, and events! Register TODAY on our website: movementresearch.org or view our weekly newsletter #linkinbio First time taking a class with MR? Please review our locations page on our website before you join us: /classes-and-events/locations/ 💻 All virtual classes take place in (EDT). 🌱 Please note all Physical Inquiries & Somatic classes will take place at @gibneyeducation 280 Broadway 🌷Save on classes and purchase an MR class card! Class Cards: A 10-class card is available for $160, or $16/class. Class cards can be used for any classes labeled “class card eligible.” OR ⏥ on our weekly schedule released every Friday. Class cards are nonrefundable and expire 6 months after the purchase date. If you encounter any issues with purchasing or using your class card, please email [email protected] 🎉Tue, May 19 | TIX STILL AVAILABLE for our 2026 Gala happening at @judsonchurchnyc visit our website to learn more!! [ID and photo credit: Participants in Ogemdi Ude's 2025, MELT workshop. Photo by Rachel Keane.]

😎WEEK 3: Jul 27-31! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Neil Greenberg @neilgberg PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3024/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 3:30pm - 6:00pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: Queer as adjective, verb, and noun: What might make a performance action queer? What is it to queer performance? What constitutes a queering? The workshop will rely on discourse, both choreographic and verbal, as a means of critical reflection of our own taken-for-granted assumptions about dance, choreography and performance, as well as the normative assumptions of the traditions in which we each participate. Participants will develop palettes of materials—movement, ideas, questions—via directed improvisation, then experiment to find different strategies for organizing the materials. We’ll then bring those explorations forward through performance-making experiments that center on the queering of form and process – irrespective of whether the actual materials or performance actions are explicitly queer (though we’ll look at that possibility too)... About the artist: I’m a choreographer, dancer and educator, perhaps best known for my Not-About-AIDS-Dance (1994), which employs projected text as a layering strategy to provide doors into spaces for meaning(fulness) in the dance, while raising questions about the nature of meaning-making. My most recent project: Betsy (2022), continues my (utopian) interest in the move away from representation toward an experience of the performance moment in and of itself... [ID: Neil a white cis-man with short brown hair and brown moustache, in profile, head back and looking out and up, with his index finger pointing to and touching his chin. He's wearing nail-polish that matches the color of his tank top. Photo by Frank Mullaney.]

😎WEEK 3: Jul 27-31! MELT Registration is open!! | Join mayfield brooks @mayfieldbrookz in DisORiENtaTIoN: dancing the joyful mystery PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3018/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 1pm - 3pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: This workshop will explore disorientation as dancing into liberation, release, wildness and joy. Drawing from mayfield’s practice of Improvising While Black or IWB the invitation is to bring all of you to the dance. We will practice arriving, falling, body surfing, catching spirit, riding waves, cosmic vocalizing, decomposing dance, deep belly laughter, and play. This is a practice of embracing the feral, and wild parts of ourselves. In the eye of collective societal storms, I will also invite participants into moments of movement solidarity, embodied interspecies singing and collective quietude. Disorientation is a release from all that holds us back. Are you ready to fall into the mystery? About the artist: mayfield brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is the 2021 recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for their experimental dance film, Whale Fall and a 2022 Danspace Project Platform artist... [ID: Brown skinned dancer in white sleeveless jump suit in a back bend with hands extended toward white suspended fabric in a rounded shape, Lighting is a pinkish purplish hue and back drop is the Judson Church dance space. Photo by Emily Farthing]

😎WEEK 3: Jul 27-31! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Angie Pittman @angellaellaella in Dancing A Part/Dancing Together PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3012/ When:Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 10am - 12pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: In this movement workshop, you’ll be led by dance artist Angie Pittman, whose practice centers experimentation, Black womanism, improvisation, and narrative as impetus for movement. Drawing from Umfundalai, a contemporary technique derived from dance traditions throughout the African diaspora, she’ll guide you through movements that will leave you with a greater awareness of your physical body and the way your feet impact the earth. She often works with the imagery and organizing principles of Umfundalai, Soul Line Dance, improvisation, and Bartenieff Fundamentals. We will navigate dance material through floorwork, breath, self-massage, learned phrase work, and improvisational scores while letting the backspace be responsive, mobile, and listening. Live sound scores will be provided by Pittman’s collaborator, Cody Jensen. About the artist: Angie Pittman is a New York-based Bessie award-winning multidisciplinary performance artist whose choreographic work uses dance, text, and sound. Their work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center, The Invisible Dog(Catch 73), The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, Roulette, Rose Bowl Tavern, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. As a dancer, they have worked for 28 national and international choreographers and artists including work by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Tere O’Connor, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, and Ralph Lemon. They are currently performing in the work of Cynthia Oliver Dance Theatre and Jasmine Hearn... [ID: A black and white photo of Angie in a squat, Photo by Whitney Browne.]

Starship Somatics time today, 11am ET! Free, register through Movement Research. Yesterday, we met many princess clownfish like this one while swimming among the rocks of Condado Lagoon in Puerto Rico… time to dance with virtual fishies from our hotel room online!!

☀️REGISTER TODAY! | Morning Class: Playtime.Together. with nia love Learn more and register on our website: /classes/3004/ or visit the #linkinbio When: Mondays | May 8 - Jun 12, 2026 | 10am - 12pm Price: $18 Location: MR Studios 150 First Avenue About nia love: nia love is a three-time Bessie award-winning choreographer, performer, teaching artist, Mother, and deep sea diver. She is a recent awardee of the prestigious Alpert Award and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and New England Foundation For The Arts award. She is an inaugural recipient of several distinguishing fellowships in dance, including Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowship (2019), Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellowship at Maggie Allesee National Center For Choreography, Tallahassee, FL (2019-2020); a Gibney DiP Dance in Process Residency at Gibney Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, New York, NY (2019) among many more. [ID and photo credit: 1. Black woman standing with hands behind her back. She is wearing a green and yellow v-neck blouse with white barrel pants. Photo by Orion Gordan. 2. A photo of nia love seated with her arms spread wide and one leg lifted. Photo by Grant Halverson.]

Join us for Trisha Brown Company Class on Wednesdays in NYC! 🗓️ Wednesday, May 13 with Savannah Gaillard 🕙 10AM-12PM 📍 The Bob, 150 1st Avenue, NYC ➡️ $18 ✨ Pre-Registration available through the link in our bio or at movementresearch.org. Upcoming Classes: May 20: NO CLASS May 27: Patrick Needham June 3: Kyle Marshall . . . #trishabrown

😎WEEK 3: JULY 20-24! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Jonathan González @thirdlyrelevant in HEAT! PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3014/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 20 - 24, 2026 Time: 3:30pm - 6pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: HEAT is a choreographic workshop centered on endurance, exertion, and devotion as collective practice. Working indoors and outdoors, participants will engage in physically demanding movement scores that explore sweat, humidity, repetition, and accumulation as conditions shaping both individual and group experience. Devotion is approached as sustained physical commitment—to movement, to the group, and to the shared conditions we inhabit. Through repetition, insistence, and extended duration, participants move beyond momentary effort into longer arcs of engagement, where endurance becomes a practice of remaining present... About the artist: Jonathan González is a choreographer, artist, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice engages embodiment, land, and temporality as central materials. Working across performance, installation, sound, image, and text, their work investigates how bodies encounter architecture, environment, and collective experience through sustained physical practice...

😎 WEEK 3: JULY 20-24! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Stephanie Skura @stephaniehopeskura ONLINE for Freedom + Rigor + Courage: Open Source Forms and Improvisation! PLAN YOUR MELT SUMMER! Explore movement online this summer! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3022/ When: Week 3: Mon - Fri, Jul 20 - 24, 2026 Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm EDT Location: Online, via Zoom About this workshop: Deeply rooted in and fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), Skura developed Open Source Forms (OSF) after twelve years as SRT core faculty working closely alongside SRT creator Joan Skinner, and decades of radical performance practice. OSF includes shedding outer layers, dissolving ego, finding primal energy, agility navigating subconscious realms, & imagery as a powerful tool for transformation. Skura draws on decades of research & practice in improvisation & radical composition techniques, & her extensive background as SRT and OSF teacher and teacher-trainer. Her teaching derives from a rehearsal process that celebrates diversity, collaboration, and individual empowerment: free of inhibition, wildly intuitive, inviting mind to collaborate… About the artist: Called ‘reliably irreverent’, Stephanie Skura, ‘major American experimentalist‘ & Bessie award-winner, has for many years described her choreographic process as ‘anti-fascistic’, experimenting with methods that evoke the power and individuality of each performer. With a deep respect for individual diversity & subconscious realms, she has researched, performed & taught movement & performance for four decades in fourteen countries and 30 US states. Investigating boundaries & intersections of dance, poetry and performance, she has a passion for collaboration, as political act as well as artistic choice, and for sustainability both in nature & performance…

😎WEEK 3: JULY 20-24! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Bradley Teal Ellis in ‘Travels Over Feeling: Attentional Strategies and Practical Physical Studies in Contact Improvisation’ ! PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3025/ When: Week 3: Jul 20-24 | Mon - Fri, Jul 20 - 24, 2026 Time: 1pm - 3pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: This workshop invites you to refine and deepen your Contact Improvisation practice by turning attention itself into a tool. We will explore how sensation informs choice, how readiness shapes what’s possible, and how a more responsive body opens the door to dancing that is both daring and easeful. Through structured improvisations, weight-sharing studies, and physical problem-solving, we will develop practical tools for navigating shared balance, timing, and support. We will investigate the mechanics that allow for continuity, fluidity, and adaptability in partnering — where is the support, where is the momentum, and how can we allow the body to ride our attention? Exercises will focus on tuning into states of readiness and the relational space between bodies as something palpable and navigable — not merely the gap before contact begins. From there, we refine touch as a form of communication and expand our range of physical responses… About the artist: Bradley Teal Ellis is a New York City-based dance artist and educator specializing in Contact Improvisation. He has researched & practiced Contact Improvisation for 28 years. Since 2009, he has been faculty at Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for dance and improvisation. Since 2013 he has been teaching at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts/Experimental Theatre Wing, SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance, and has served as guest lecturer at Columbia University’s MFA Acting Program...