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💻MONDAY VIRTUAL CLASS WITH MR | Register for Releasing: Open Source Forms (OSF) with Teresa Smith For more info, includi...
05/29/2026

💻MONDAY VIRTUAL CLASS WITH MR | Register for Releasing: Open Source Forms (OSF) with Teresa Smith

For more info, including teaching schedule click the or visit: https://movementresearch.org/classes/2906/

When: Mondays | Jun 1, 8, 15, 22 | 10-11am EDT
Price: Sliding scale, $12-$25
Location: Online via Zoom

In OSF classes we enter a creative process; letting go of outer layers of holding to find primal energy and ease. Guided by embodied imagery as a powerful tool for transformation we’ll learn to move with agility, transparency and depth. Through alignment studies, movement exploration and group improvisation we’ll cultivate a deep connection to our inner and outer environments. In this series we’ll explore three unique states of dancing; I move, it moves me, It moves! A remarkably effective way of learning, the OSF approach can catalyze transformation in many kinds of practice, in unique movement virtuosity, and in daily life.

Teresa Smith brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person’s essence and delights in awakening the creative spirit. She is a certified teacher of Open Source Forms™ and practiced the root form Skinner Releasing™ for three decades. Through her dance company ‘Earthbody’ she presents performance, artwork and workshops emerging from an intimate conversation with the body, psyche and natural environment. Teresa’s exploration of shifting states of consciousness informs a wide range of her somatic research and knowledge. In addition to teaching OSF, she is a certified teacher of Sufi Dancemeditation™, and a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork® and Grof® Legacy Breathwork. She also teaches and facilitates contact improvisation, dance composition / improvisation and authentic movement. She has performed internationally in her own work and with La Fura dels Baus, Ellen Webb, Stephanie Skura, Lance Gries, David Hurwith, Yvonne Meier, Kiori Kawai, and in numerous improvisation ensembles and collaborative projects.

(ID and photo credit in comments]

☀️Catch Anna Sperber for her last two sessions in June! | Morning Class with Anna Sperber Learn more and register on ou...
05/29/2026

☀️Catch Anna Sperber for her last two sessions in June! | Morning Class with Anna Sperber

Learn more and register on our website:
https://movementresearch.org/classes/2998/
or visit the

When: Mondays | Jun 1 & 8, 2026 | 10am-2pm
Price: $18, class card eligible
Location: MR Studios 150 First Avenue

Class will begin with a grounding warm-up that invites awareness, ease, and support through the energetic and anatomical pathways of the body. We’ll take time to locate where movement initiates, tracing how breath, gravity, and skeletal alignment can serve as both anchor and source. We’ll move through gentle sequences into more expansive and physically challenging patterns. Through both structured movement and improvisational exploration, we’ll activate sensory attention. We will engage with scores to activate spontaneous impulse and physical imagination. Learning choreographic material, we’ll work with attention to presence, initiation, and the relationship between weight, gravity, and momentum. Looking to move with clarity, freedom and power – dancing for and with one another.

What to expect:
Anatomical and sensory warm up moving into improvisation and set material.

Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work is rooted in the poetic potency of choreography and its capacity for perceptual transformation. It grapples with the exhilarations and constraints of living in a body, grounded in presence and viscerality, and embraces aggression often denied within the feminine. Through an exploration of collective attention and action, her performances draw audiences into heightened states of noticing—revealing how bodies and environments transform one another, and how sound and light can alter our sense of time.

ID: Workshop graphic: A woman wearing a black shirt is mid movement with her head tossed back against a white background. Photo by Ben McKeown.
Bio post: A woman with brown hair wearing a white sweater looks directly into the camera. She is standing outside with trees in the background. Photo by Peter Kerlin]

🎉Open Performance | Join us Tue, Jun 2 !! To learn more visit our website: https://movementresearch.org/events/1424/ or ...
05/28/2026

🎉Open Performance | Join us Tue, Jun 2 !!

To learn more visit our website: https://movementresearch.org/events/1424/ or click on

🎉Artists:
Noel Olson
Jill Moshman
Maya Ward

🎉Moderating Artists:
moira williams (2024 Access. Movement. Play. Artist)

🎉What is Open Performance?
A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-process, for artists at all stages of their development selected through a randomized lottery. The events are centered around a moderated discussion between the artists and audience providing an opportunity to experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.

[ID: A photo of an Open performance artist: The artist stands in the middle of the apace and a sheer black fabric draped over their body billows out all around them. Photo by Rachel Keane.]

🌞Ongoing Classes with MR at Gibney! | Register for Pilates with Amelia Heintzelman For more info, including teaching sch...
05/26/2026

🌞Ongoing Classes with MR at Gibney! | Register for Pilates with Amelia Heintzelman

For more info, including teaching schedule click the or visit
https://movementresearch.org/classes/3042/

When: Tuesdays, Jun 2-30, 2026 | 2-3:15pm
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway
Price: $18

Class will reference contemporary approaches to pilates. Expect to move through challenging sequences.

Each class presents opportunities for exploration, intuition, and practicing good techniques.

What to expect:
There will be some traditional pilates and some contemporary pilates exercises. Expect to be challenged and encouraged.

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[Class ID: Amelia is white and has brown curly hair. She does a backbend on the ground with her feet on a stool. She has on a short unitard and dance sneakers and is in an empty space. Photo by Jenna Westra.

Bio ID: Amelia is white and has brown curly hair. She stands on one leg and holds the other leg with her hand. She is in a chandelier shop. She has on flip flop heels, light wash jeans, and a t-shirt with cowboy shoes on it. Photo by Alexa West.]

⭐MR@Judson | Mon, Jun 1 | 7pm Join us for Movement Research at Judson Church! Click our for more info or visit: https:...
05/26/2026

⭐MR@Judson | Mon, Jun 1 | 7pm

Join us for Movement Research at Judson Church! Click our for more info or visit: https://movementresearch.org/events/1406/

Featured Artists:
⭐Melinda Ring
⭐Stuart B Meyers
⭐Veronica Santiago Moniello (2025-26 Artist-In-Residence)

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🌷Movement Research Schedule: May 18 - 24, 2026 | Classes, workshops, and events!Register TODAY on our website: movementr...
05/23/2026

🌷Movement Research Schedule: May 18 - 24, 2026 | Classes, workshops, and events!

Register TODAY on our website: movementresearch.org or view our weekly newsletter

First time taking a class with MR? Please review our locations page on our website before you join us: https://movementresearch.org/classes-and-events/locations/

💻 All virtual classes take place in (EDT).

🌱 Please note all Physical Inquiries & Somatic classes will take place at 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]

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🥳 THANK YOU to the Movement Research community for your support in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant...
05/21/2026

🥳 THANK YOU to the Movement Research community for your support in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant, and Eleanor Savage at the Movement Research 2026 Gala on May 19! 

Relive the night with us and visit our website for the Gala Program and Honoree Tribute videos! www.movementresearch.org/MRGala

Through your generous support of this event, Movement Research is able to continue to serve the experimental dance community; supporting and sustaining more artists in their investigative practice. If you haven’t had a chance yet, we encourage you to donate to the 2026 Gala Funds in honor of Okwui, Peter, and Eleanor.

Each year Movement Research offers our community the opportunity to make a gift towards specific programs that our Gala honorees strongly believe in. We hope that you’ll join our honorees in speaking up and supporting what needs our care and support. It’s just one more way that Movement Research’s Gala facilitates connections amongst our art-loving family, and beyond.

Photos by Rachel Keane.

🥳DON'T MISS THE DANCE PARTY OF THE SEASON!The Movement Reasearch Gala is happening soon! Honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Pe...
05/17/2026

🥳DON'T MISS THE DANCE PARTY OF THE SEASON!
The Movement Reasearch Gala is happening soon! Honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, , and Eleanor Savage Eleanor Savage

To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: https://movementresearch.org/MRGala

When: Tuesday, May 19 2026
Location: Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South New York, NY

Time:
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

🥳 JOIN TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY!To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala vi...
05/16/2026

🥳 JOIN TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST - RESERVE YOURS TODAY!

To purchase tickets and more information about this year’s gala visit: https://movementresearch.org/MRGala

Join Movement Research and the 2026 Gala Co-Chairs on Tuesday, May 19 in honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant , 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

☀️UPCOMING WORKSHOP: Sounding Body Series: Your Voice is a Movement with Peter SciscioliFor more info and to register cl...
05/15/2026

☀️UPCOMING WORKSHOP: Sounding Body Series: Your Voice is a Movement with Peter Sciscioli

For more info and to register click the or visit:
https://movementresearch.org/workshops/2982/

When: Thursdays | Jun 4, 11, 18 | 4 - 6pm
Price: $18
Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue

Acknowledging that our voices are unique to each of us and that any sound we make comes from a movement, I’d like to invite a space where we can explore these phenomena and connect to ways that we might express ourselves more fully in the world. Each session will begin with a movement warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breath can move through the body as an opener, an expressive tool, and as a starting point for making any sound. From there, I’ll guide us through a practice of moving vocal/physical vibration into different parts of our bodies to discover and open resonance in some of its myriad forms. Shaping and sculpting our breath and sound with the throat/tongue/teeth/lips, we’ll look to access greater ease in speaking with our whole bodies. We’ll also approach singing while moving as a way to expand resonance.

About the artist:
Peter Sciscioli is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. Since 1997 he has been creating performance works through a choreographic lens with a wide variety of collaborators throughout the world. He has worked extensively in various capacities with Meredith Monk, as a member of Jane Comfort and Company, with Daria Faïn, and appeared in films, dances and operas by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Susan Marshall and Philip Glass/Mary Zimmerman, among others.

[ID: Workshop image: Several people stand around a circle inside of Movement Research's studio, gesturing in different ways and leaning forward with their tongues out. Photo by Harry Shunyao Zhang. Bio image: Peter, an Italian-American man, stands with his arms outstretched to one side, fingers extended, bending one knee and smiling exuberantly. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.]

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