The Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #58/59 - Research

Movement Research Performance Journal Issue 58 takes up the keyword "research" — a word intrinsic to the organization's name and its long history of supporting process over product. Tracing a through-line from Movement Research's founding in 1978 as a self-described laboratory for investigating dance and movement, the issue asks how artists are rebuilding pedagogy and processes of learning into their practice today, threading together voices from inside the university system, those parasitically attached to it, and those intentionally operating outside codified educational structures — leaving room both to celebrate how performance upends conventional hierarchies between teaching and learning, and to interrogate how dance has been curtailed by the university model.