Movement Research

😎 2026 Summer MELT Event | Movie Night: Lines, Lineage, and Legacy – Transformations in Majorette Dance with Ogemdi Ude

MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/events/1445/

When: Thu, Jul 16, 2026
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue

About this event:
During this MELT Movie Night, choreographer and director Ogemdi Ude will show segments from her most recent project MAJOR – an exploration of majorette dance history, physicality, and interiority. Alongside MAJOR, she will show and discuss the work of highly regarded HBCU majorette teams over the years, exploring the history and transformation of the form and the impacts of it on the wider contemporary dance canon.

[ID: 1. Performance photo of Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned black woman. She wears her braided hair tied back, gold hoops and an off the shoulder black long sleeve top, she has a calm facial expression and her head is tilted up slightly and she looks beyond the camera. Photo by Rachel Keane. 2. Two majorette dance teams dressed in black, blue, and green leotards and jumpsuits dance in front of a marching band on a large theatrical stage. There is a hanging green turf covered wall behind them, as well as football stadium lights. Photo by Maria Baranova]

😎 Summer MELT Week 2: July 13-17! Register for, ‘Everywhere around the world. They’ll be dancing’ with Moriah Evans

PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/workshops/3027/

Week 2: Jul 13-17
3:30-6pm | Everywhere around the world. They’ll be dancing | MR Studios at 150 First Ave.

About this workshop:
We will work with a speculative relationship to one’s own body and the bodies of others to grasp what our bodies contain. Feminisms are the groundwork as we work through a variety of dancing methodologies. We will work through various systems of perception-action. Some dancing methods will be initiated from deep inside one’s internal organs; others will be formed in relation to one another as a temporary community. We will consider the bodies within bodies within bodies within frames in order to reflect on the social potential of dance/choreography–envisioning the future and navigating the now. Protocols will be proposed and further proposed. Relations will not be fixed in an effort to find new structures, new formats, new thinking or just understand one’s compositional proclivities.

About the artist:
Moriah Evans is an artist working in and on the form of dance—as an artifact, object and culture with its histories, protocols, default production mechanisms, modes of staging and viewing—and the capacity of the public to read dance. She approaches choreography as a social political project that means far more than arranging bodies and movement in space—it is an ideological pursuit capable of probing the intersections of embodiment, performance, and politics. Recent works: Remains Persist (Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 2023; Performance Space New York, NY, 2022); REPOSE (Beach Sessions, NY, 2021); Be My Muse (Pace Live, NY, 2021; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, 2018); Configure (The Kitchen, NY, 2018). I initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography in 2011—a collective investigating participatory performances.

[ID: Workshop: A photo of yellow smoke infiltrating a landscape of trees. There are steps in the foreground of the space. HARBORing by Moriah Evans at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanic Gardens. Photo by Michael McWeeney. Bio: Moriah holds their hands up to their face; they are lit from the side. Photo by Alex Beriault.]

😎 2026 Summer MELT Event: Sunk Shore – Understanding Climate Change, Embodying Shorelines with Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low)

MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/events/1461/

When: Tue, Jul 7, 2026
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue

About this event:
What do you think your shoreline will look like in the year 2100?
What role will climate change play in shaping that future?

Sunk Shore is Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low’s approach to making climate change data local, relatable, and tangible so together we can plan for a future that we want to see happen.

Sunk Shore work is based in creating an embodied understanding of overwhelming climate change data, and grows from Hall and Mac Low’s long-term dance and somatic practices married to scientific analysis and speculative imagining. For this MELT Event, Hall and Mac Low will share the Sunk Shore methodology they use to create their shoreline and climate change based artworks. In this interactive workshop participants will explore memories and feelings of their own specific shorelines and speculate about what that shoreline may look like 75 years from now. Hall and Mac Low will lead participants through a process which includes: local history, embodied knowledge of place, discussions of climate change predictions, participation in exercises and imaginings, and building a group vision based on each person’s expectations, fears, and hopes for the future of their shorelines and homes.

[ID: Clarinda and Carolyn, wearing orange jumpsuits, are on a raft near the wooden pylons of a pier in the middle of a body of water (Flushing Creek). Clarinda is standing to the left of the image, hands in pockets. Carolyn, wearing a big yellow elbow-length glove, is squatting to the right, showing a group of people in colorful kayaks something from a cage that is attached to the raft. Both artists are wearing yellow caution tape at their ankles.]