Movement Research

🌏RSVP for GPS Chats: Reports from the Field
Yanira Castro

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When: Tue, Jun 9, 2026 | 6:30-8pm
Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue
Price: Donation-based ($5 suggested) | Spaces are limited and RSVP Required!

This event is part of a yearlong celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the GPS program at Movement Research!

About the event:
In this GPS Chats, Yanira Castro will share a “Report from the Field” with reflections on her participation in the GPS project “Scores for belonging with Yanira Castro in Kraków” from May 7-20, 2026 hosted by and in partnership with Krakow Choreographic Centre in Poland. Yanira will also provide an overview of the arts and culture scene in Poland.

“Scores for belonging with Yanira Castro in Kraków”
Observing the current situation in Poland and the large number of refugees and immigrants who have arrived to Poland in recent years (mainly from Ukraine), Krakow Choreographic Centre aims to initiate a conversation and artistic exchange on these topics through the GPS project, “Scores for belonging with Yanira Castro in Kraków”...

About the artist:
Yanira Castro is an interdisciplinary artist born in Borikén (Puerto Rico), living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn), and working at the intersection of communal practices, performance, installation, and interactive technology. Yanira forms iterative, multimodal projects that center land, and the complexity of citizenship and governance in works activated and performed by the public. Since 2009, she’s created and performed with a team of collaborators as a canary torsi. Her recent work includes a performance manual for reckoning, Last Audience, a performance manual; a participatory podcast to rehearse for a collective future, Last Audience: a performance podcast; and a tea ritual created with four teens from NYC Girl Scouts Troop 6000 to enact the ingestion of home/land, TIERRA. Currently, Castro is developing her ongoing interdisciplinary work, I came here to weep, a collective exorcism for territorial possession…

🏢Ongoing Classes at MR: Contact Improvisation with
Gabrielle Revlock

For more details visit our website via the or visit: https://movementresearch.org/classes/2967/

When: Tuesdays | Jun 2 & 16 | 10am - 12pm
Price: $18 (Class card eligible!)
Location: MR Studios at 150 First Avenue

Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance of improvising/partnering based on physics of touch, weight, balance, momentum, stillness, flow, resistance, and perceptual play. Initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, CI continues to evolve as a dance research and artistic process. In these classes we will learn specific lifts and rolls and practice developmental patterns, body puzzles and forms which shape the body and space with odd timings and unusual perspectives. We will create duet dances that are dynamic and alive in the moment, becoming more tuned to center, subtleties of touch, direction, and intention, and explore musicality and phrasing. We will not only learn skills but continue to explore and discover reflexive actions of improvising.

These classes will illuminate the legacies of past pioneers as well as articulate and reform practices as experienced by the individual artist faculty.

About the Artist:
Gabrielle Revlock is a performer, choreographer, improviser and creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch-based movement practice. Her choreographic work depicts complicated but relatable interpersonal relationships, developed through meticulous character study and improvisational structures. Her work has been presented across the USA, in Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia and India and in NYC at venues including New York Live Arts, JACK, Joyce Soho, Gibney and CPR...

🌷 Movement Research Schedule: June 1-7, 2026 | Classes, workshops, and events!

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🏢FREE & Donation Based EVENTS!!
Jun 1 | Movement Research at the Judson Church
Jun 2 | Open Performance

[ID and photo credit: A photo from Neil Greenberg’s 2025 Summer MELT workshop. A close up shot of a dancer’s head and upper torso as they’re bringing their hands towards their face. Photo by Rachel Keane]

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

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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.]

🌞ONGOING CLASSES WITH GIBNEY! Register for Feldenkrais Method ® with Antonio Ramos

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When: Wednesdays | Jun 3 - 24, 2026 | 12:30-2pm
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway
Price: $18

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.

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). Pepatian also produced his work in the Bronx at BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and Pregones Theater/Teatro Pregones. He received a grant from the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund through Movement Research and was recently a nominee for the United States Artist Fellowship. Most recently, Antonio was an Artist-in-Residence at El Museo del Barrio...

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🌞ONGOING CLASSES WITH GIBNEY! Alexander Technique Allie Kronick

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When: Wednesdays Jun 3-24, 2026 | 2:15-4pm
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway
Price: $18

This class will explore the essential connection between your mind, body, and self through the lens of the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique provides a process for cultivating awareness and creating the conditions for change to emerge in our movement patterns, thought process, and sensory experiences. Together we will practice embodying ideas that allow us to understand our own ranges of effort, mobility, breath, balance, and recuperation. Using the AT principles one can discover movement possibilities that are supportive and sustainable. Classes will explore topics such as: dynamic balance, presence, anatomy and kinesiology, tools for recuperation and injury prevention, nervous system regulation, and developmental movement, among others. The class will include practical application to everyday movements as well as integration into dancing and movement practice.

Allie Kronick (she/her) is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and dance educator based out of Brooklyn, NY. She graduated magna cm laude from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University. With a career spanning 15+ years of professional performance, dance education, and choreography, Allie has taught for and created on numerous young artists across the US and abroad. She was a founding faculty member teaching contemporary dance for the Professional Training Programs at the Martha Graham School and is currently on faculty at Manhattanville University. Allie enjoys working with a wide range of communities and teaches private lessons and group AT classes in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Her teaching is informed by her continued pursuit of a more sustainable and joyful movement practice and life.

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🌞Start and end your week with Klein™ Technique!!

Join Barbara Mahler on Monday and Fridays this summer for bone deep exploration into this somatic practice.

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Mondays: Klein Technique™ / Stretch & Placement
When: Mondays | Feb 16 - Jun 22, 2026 | 10am - 12pm
Location: MR Studios 150 First Avenue
Price: $18

Fridays: Klein Technique™ Dance/Movement Class
When: Fridays, Mar 6 - Jun 26, 2026 | 10am-12pm
Location: Gibney at 280 Broadway
Price: $18

About Barbara Mahler: Barbara Mahler is a longstanding, active member of the NYC dance community, as a choreographer, movement educator, performer, body worker, dancer and mover. As a teacher she shares her continuous learnings, her movement perspective, and knowledge to support others. Barbara has been teaching dance, primarily Klein Technique™, in both pure form and as related to many other styles of movement for almost 40 years, having begun her studies in 1977, and began teaching soon after in 1980. Barbara became the first certified teacher in 1988, and the associate director and main teacher of the Susan Klein School of Dance and Movement from 1983-2003. As a contributor in the outreach of Klein Technique™, Barbara has crafted a body-felt approach in teaching to more deeply engage the students in a process of growth and change. In practice, she slowly breaks down all the component parts of the work and weaves them into body-felt experience. Her teaching is consistent, detailed, precise, and open. Since 2005, Barbara has been an ongoing faculty with Movement Research (NYC), and a 2002 and 2008 Artist-in-Residence…

[ID and photo credit:
Workshop Image: A collage of two promotional images from Barbara's Klein Classes with text detailing class info. Top image by Rachel Keane. Bottom image courtesy of the artist.
Bio image: Profile of Barbara Mahler; head, neck and shoulders, she is holding a necklace in her righthand/upstage hand. Photo by Julie Lemberger.]

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

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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.

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