Movement Research

🏢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...

☀️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.]

🌞ONGOING CLASSES WITH GIBNEY! Alexander Technique Allie Kronick

For more info, including teaching schedule click the or visit: https://movementresearch.org/classes/2961/

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.

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

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.]