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Tenement Museum
12pm-5pm 
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E 4th St Open Street (btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave)

One of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, Movement Research, moved in 2019 to our new home at 1st Avenue and 9th Street in the 122 Cultural Center. A community hub for dialogue and artist-driven initiatives, Movement Research hosts free and subsidized programs including classes, workshops, performances, discussions, artist residencies, national/international exchanges, and rehearsal space; and publishes The Movement Research Performance Journal (mrpj.org) and Critical Correspondence.

Wheelchair accessible | Seating available

Movement Research is one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Valuing the individual artist, their creative process and their vital role within society, Movement Research is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. Movement Research strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.

Opening: May/June 2021

Project Description: 

For the Lower East Side iteration of Staying Power, artist Ariana Allensworth will expand upon a collaborative, multidisciplinary art and research project that celebrates the people’s history of New York City public housing in the neighborhood through photography, personal collections, and interview with residents. The project offers counter-narratives to the stereotypes surrounding the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) through the lens of residents raised and living in NYCHA.

Equal parts online archive, community collaboration, and public art project, FABnyc will support Ariana in the production of a public project and growth of an online archive to help preserve residents’ histories, and claim agency in the telling of narratives around public housing. 

The first iteration of Staying Power was supported by the Laundromat Project. 

Patrick Jaojoco, FAB’s Director of Programs and Natalia Viera Salgado, Co-founder, Pública Espacio wrote an open letter to NYC and NYS elected leaders.

Please read and consider joining 2600+ cultural workers by signing on.

Open Letter from Arts and Cultural Workers of NYC, Demanding the Defunding of the Police and Investment in BIPOC Communities

You can also read about this initiative in Hyperallergic.