Movement Research

🍂 REGISTER & RSVP TODAY!! 2026 Fall Season with Movement Research

View the full season announcement here: https://mailchi.mp/movementresearch/2026-fall-season-announcement

This Fall season Movement Research offers a breadth of programs supporting creative practice, process and dialogue. Whether it’s your first time or you're back for more, we're excited to share this season with you!

Movement Research supports artists and their creative practices through a variety of programming including virtual and in-person Classes and Events. These opportunities are made available through three different economic formats: low-cost, sliding scale, by donation.

💛HAPPENING NOW!! BECOME AN MR FRIEND to access EARLY
REGISTRATION for Fall 2026 Workshops!

All MR FRIENDS receive early access to register for Workshops + MELT.
MR FRIENDS early access registration opens August 10, 2026.
Registration opens for the general public on August 17, 2026.

ID: 2026, Summer MELT with Jonathan González and Moriah Evans.. Photo by Rachel Keane

🍂 2026 | Fall Season Classes and Workshops - https://mailchi.mp/movementresearch/2026-fall-classes-and-workshops-fall

Photo by Rachel Keane.

🌷 Movement Research Schedule: Aug 10-16, 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]

[ID: 1. Photo from Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's 2026 Summer MELT workshop. Dancers move in the space, lunging forward and reaching an arm up and out. Photo by Rachel Keane. 2. Class calendar]

🍂 Fall 2026 Season Announcement! | Movement Research - https://mailchi.mp/movementresearch/2026-fall-season-announcement

2026, Summer MELT with Jonathan González. Photo by Rachel Keane.

🔥 WHAT’S GOING ON?! | MR Monthly Moves: August newsletter

Visit our website or visit the link in the bio: mailchi.mp/movementresearch/2026-monthly-moves-august

and don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list!

MR is on Summer Break: August 14 - 30
Our office will be closed starting 3pm on Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 30, 2026. Check out our ongoing classes continuing during the break!

Become an MR Friend today for just $25 ! All MR FRIENDS receive
these base perks:
- early registration for MELT + Workshops
- first looks at upcoming MELT + Workshop dates
- sneak peeks at MELT + workshop faculty members
- invitations to special events at Movement Research
- curated monthly newsletter

ID: 2026 Spring Movement Research at the Judson Church; Melinda Ring. Photo by Rachel Keane.

🌞ONGOING CLASSES WITH GIBNEY! Feldenkrais Method®
Antonio Ramos

For more info each class and to register visit our full calendar via the or visit:https://movementresearch.org/classes/3070/

When: Wednesdays | Aug 5 - 26, 2026 | 12:30-2:00PM
Price: $18
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway

The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. The method emphasizes awareness, distribution of effort/action through the whole self, expanding self-perception, and our ability to carry out our intentions. This class is ideal for dancers and people from different backgrounds interested in discovering more about their physicality in a pain-free way and enjoying a larger sense of well-being.

About Antonio Ramos:
Antonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico where he trained in jazz, salsa and African dance. He later received a B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase College/SUNY. His choreography has been produced at El Museo del Barrio, Hostos College, The Kitchen (Work and Process), New York Live Arts (Studio Series), Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks and Split Stream), SUNY/Purchase, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Joes Pub, Taller Pregones, Danspace Project, Lexington Center for the Arts in New York, DanceNow Downtown, Princeton University, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Fringe Festival 2000 at Theatre La Chappelle (Montreal, Canada), The Painted Bride (Philadelphia PA) and Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).

[ID: 1. Antonio Ramos offering tactile support to a student during class. The student is on yoga mat on the floor, hands behind their head, feet on the ground, knees bent and the head slightly off the ground. Antonio is holding the student's head with one hand and the other is rested just above the left knee. Antonios curly hair falls on his face. Photo by Harry Shunyao Zhang. 2. A portrait of Antonio wearing a Hawaiian shirt; he has a long beard and a sassy expression. Photo courtesy of artist.]

🌞ONGOING CLASSES WITH GIBNEY! Alexander Technique with Chloë Nagle Çetinkaya

For more info each class and to register visit our full calendar via the or visit:https://movementresearch.org/classes/3057/

When: Wednesdays | Aug 5 - Sep 9, 2026 | 2:15pm - 4:00pm
Price: $18
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway

The Alexander Technique is a process of inquiry into the ways that we move and think about movement. This curiosity can awaken the senses and deepen awareness of the body in space, opening the door to new movement possibilities and creative choices. Beginning with a gentle warm-up followed by guided activities involving solo, partner, and/or group movement explorations, you’ll learn Alexander Technique principles in motion.

About Chloë Nagle Çetinkaya:
Chloë Nagle Çetinkaya (she/her) is a performing artist, writer, and Alexander Technique teacher based in New York City. She earned an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and is a 1600 hour AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and 200 hour yoga instructor.

[ID and photo credit: 1. Chloë Nagle Çetinkaya teaches undergraduate dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Everyone is gathered in a circle. She is on the right-hand side wearing all black with a white KN95 mask. Photo by Kevin Obsatz. 2. Chloë Nagle Çetinkaya, a white, cisgender person, is photographed in black and white while dancing. She gestures as if picking up something delicate, looking into her empty palms thoughtfully. Photo by Kyle Adler. ]

⭐Announcing the 2026 A.M.P Resident, Naomi Ortiz ⭐

What is A.M.P. ?
The Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency Program supports emerging and multi-marginalized disabled artists who are often excluded from opportunities in the dance world. The residency will provide time, space, and caring resources, specifically designed BY and FOR disabled artists, to further their practices and artistic works…

Learn more about this program and Naomi Ortiz on our website: https://movementresearch.org/artist-opportunities-and-programs/residency-programs/amp/

About Naomi Ortiz:
Naomi Ortiz (they/them) is a multidisciplinary Disabled, Mestize, poet, writer, and visual artist envisioning collective futures in the Arizona U.S./Mexico borderlands. Their work invites people to imagine how relational ways of belonging tend our connections with human and more-than human kin.

Ortiz is a 2026 Arizona Humanities Speaker. They are a 2025-2026 awardee from the Landscape Research Group, for their project, “Heritage Sites and Ceremony from Bed to Land” along with moira williams. For their work advancing the cultural landscape, Ortiz was selected by the Ford and Mellon Foundations as a U.S. Artist Disability Futures Fellow. (Supported by United States Artists.) Nominated for their multidisciplinary project, Complicating Conversations, Ortiz was awarded a Reclaiming the US/Mexico Reclaiming the Border Narrative Grant to bring focus to disability and climate action narratives in the borderlands. (Supported by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC).) They were also nominated for the 2025 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities…

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🌷 Movement Research Schedule: Aug 3-9, 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]

[ID: Photo from 2026 Summer MELT with Moriah Evans. A participant kneels and arches their torso back letting their hair whip backwards. Text reads, Movement Research Classes, Workshops, Events, Aug 3-9, 2026]

☀️ Movement Research Monthly Moves - August 2026 https://mailchi.mp/movementresearch/2026-monthly-moves-august