Movement Research

🥳 MR GALA TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY! To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: /MRGala Join Movement Research and the 2026 Gala Co-Chairs on Tuesday, May 19 in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant @sweatvariant , and Eleanor Savage! Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South New York, NY 6pm | Dinner 8pm | Performance & Party 🎫Tickets Dinner, Performance & Party (6pm entry) Sponsorship Tables | $5,000-$25,000 Benefactor Ticket | $2,500 Patron Ticket | $1,000 Dinner Ticket | $500 Artist/Arts-Worker Sliding Scale Dinner Ticket | $200-$300 Performance & Party Only (8pm entry) Reserved Seating | $100 Standing Room | $50 🎤Emcees Ogemdi Ude and Paul Hamilton 🥳Performances at 8pm by AJ & Kris Eiko Otake Helga Davis Jennifer Monson with David Watson mayfield brooks in collaboration with Isaac Silber yuniya edi kwon 🥳Dance Party Directly Following The Performances With DJ Sets By Kevin Beasley DANIRO #nyc #gala #movementresearch #dance #artists

🥳5 MORE DAYS!! TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY! To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: /MRGala Join Movement Research and the 2026 Gala Co-Chairs on Tuesday, May 19 in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant @sweatvariant , and Eleanor Savage! Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South New York, NY 6pm | Dinner 8pm | Performance & Party 🎫Tickets Dinner, Performance & Party (6pm entry) Sponsorship Tables | $5,000-$25,000 Benefactor Ticket | $2,500 Patron Ticket | $1,000 Dinner Ticket | $500 Artist/Arts-Worker Sliding Scale Dinner Ticket | $200-$300 Performance & Party Only (8pm entry) Reserved Seating | $100 Standing Room | $50 🎤Emcees Ogemdi Ude and Paul Hamilton 🥳Performances at 8pm by AJ & Kris Eiko Otake Helga Davis Jennifer Monson with David Watson mayfield brooks in collaboration with Isaac Silber yuniya edi kwon 🥳Dance Party Directly Following The Performances With DJ Sets By Kevin Beasley DANIRO

🥳TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY! Honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, @sweatvariant , and Eleanor Savage To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: /MRGala Tuesday, May 19 2026 Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South New York, NY 6pm | Dinner 8pm | Performance & Party 🎫Tickets Dinner, Performance & Party (6pm entry) Sponsorship Tables | $5,000-$25,000 Benefactor Ticket | $2,500 Patron Ticket | $1,000 Dinner Ticket | $500 Artist/Arts-Worker Sliding Scale Dinner Ticket | $200-$300 Performance & Party Only (8pm entry) Reserved Seating | $100 Standing Room | $50 🎤Emcees Ogemdi Ude and Paul Hamilton 🥳Performances at 8pm by AJ & Kris Eiko Otake Helga Davis Jennifer Monson with David Watson mayfield brooks yuniya edi kwon 🥳Dance Party Directly Following The Performances With DJ Sets By DANIRO Kevin Beasley

🥳4 MORE DAYS!! TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY! To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: /MRGala Tuesday, May 19 2026 Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South New York, NY 6pm | Dinner 8pm | Performance & Party 🎫Tickets Dinner, Performance & Party (6pm entry) Sponsorship Tables | $5,000-$25,000 Benefactor Ticket | $2,500 Patron Ticket | $1,000 Dinner Ticket | $500 Artist/Arts-Worker Sliding Scale Dinner Ticket | $200-$300 Performance & Party Only (8pm entry) Reserved Seating | $100 Standing Room | $50 🎤Emcees Ogemdi Ude and Paul Hamilton 🥳Performances at 8pm by AJ & Kris Eiko Otake Helga Davis Jennifer Monson with David Watson mayfield brooks in collaboration with Isaac Silber yuniya edi kwon 🥳Dance Party Directly Following The Performances With DJ Sets By Kevin Beasley DANIRO

🌷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 Petra Kuppers @petraturtledisco in Planting (Disabled) Futures MELT with us ONLINE! Learn more and register on our website: /workshops/3021/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 12pm - 1pm EDT Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: Let’s dance with plants – lying down, sitting up, taking space or creeping/jumping off the walls. In this week, we’ll go on dancerly dream journeys and visit with houseplants, street plants, trees we touch and faraway trees, plants on other planets. Who are you, plant being? What wisdom might you care to share? What dances happen where we meet? Going slow, spreading wide and deep, balancing light and dark, sharing resources, and water, water, water. Using movement, writing, a bit of drawing, maybe some sounding, we will explore environmental queer narratives, dance with/as unnatural plants, find resiliencies and healing pleasure. This work emerges out of my ongoing Starship Somatics series, but will go beyond that series’ auditory focus and play with ambient sound. We will align modalities with who is in the room, in experimental access. If you require ASL, please inform Movement Research. About the artist: Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist who uses disability culture methods, somatics, performance, media, and speculative poetry to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is the award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (UoMinnesota Press, 2022, open access). Her Crip/Mad Archive Dances, an experimental documentary, won the Best Artists Film Award of the Together! Disability Film Festival... [ID: Petra Kuppers, a white queer disabled cis woman of size with yellow glasses, shaved head, pink lipstick and a black dotted top, smiles up to the sky, arms outstretched, embracing the world. Her mobility scooter’s handlebar is visible at the bottom of the image. She is in front of a multicolored wall: purple, pink, yellow and orange. Photo by Tamara Wade ]

😎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.]

📚 Studies Project: When Disabled Embodiment Is the Center An Open Discussion on Pedagogy, Access, and the Body as Knowledge Kayla Hamilton @kayla_hamilton903 Learn more and RSVP by visiting our website: /events/1433/ or click on the #linkinbio When: Tue, May 12, 2026 | 6:30-8pm Location: MR Studios, 122CC (150 First Avenue) Price: Donation-based ($5 suggested) | Spaces are limited and RSVP Required! Organized by Kayla Hamilton with participants Vanessa Hernandez Cruz, Anaís Gómez, and Parker Ramirez. **Please note: Masking will be required for this event. Masks will be available at the door.** About the event: What happens when disabled embodiment isn’t pushed to the edges, but becomes the starting point? This open discussion invites artists, educators, and practitioners to come together and talk about disabled ways of moving, sensing, adapting, and knowing as powerful ways of teaching and learning. Instead of treating access as something extra, we’ll explore how disabled embodiment can shape how spaces, practices, and classrooms are designed in the first place. This is a space for sharing experiences and reflecting together on what changes when we lead from lived experience rather than fixed rules or assumptions. About the artist: Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency Director Kayla Hamilton is a Leo Sun with Aquarius Rising and Moon, which means she’s always speaking in draft, dreaming big, and sometimes confusing people mid-sentence. A Bronx-based choreographer, educator, and Bessie Award-winning artist, Kayla loves the WNBA (NY Liberty + Indiana Fever fan), protein coffee, and self-help TikTok’s. She grew up in Texarkana, TX, the oldest child and only daughter in a CME church family, and spent 12 years as a NYC public school special ed teacher before striking out to build her own path…

☀️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.]

😎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.