Open Movement – Winter 2026
- Keith Haring Theater
- February 1 - June 7, 2026
Check out the schedule below!
Every Sunday from noon to 4pm, we invite you to our theaters where Open Movement is held. Curated and organized by Monica Mirabile, Open Movement is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience that offers both space for self-guided movement practice and artist-led workshops. Here, participants are invited to move in whatever way they choose—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, and observing if they don’t feel called to move. Folks in the Open Movement community describe this environment as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and grounding towards personal and collective practices.
At 4pm, our program shifts to feature workshops guided by artists and practitioners. Each week, these sessions offer a unique opportunity for participants to engage in two hours of participatory practice, exploring a range of themes from movement techniques, to performance philosophies, wellness practices and beyond. Open Movement workshop facilitators are a part of our extended Performance Space network: many of these artists have been regular participants in Open Movement and have created or hosted programs in our theaters.
This season features workshops by Nhi Le Phuong, Evan Suzuki, Justine Pierre, Jerron Hermon,Madison Wada, Barnett Cohen, Coco Villa, Immanuel J, and more!
As part of our commitment to process-focused initiatives, throughout the year we also host WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers. This season WIP will be showcased on XXX whether you’re experienced or a newcomer. Our mission is to provide a welcoming space for curious-minds to reconnect, ground themselves, and expand their perspectives, wherever they may be on their journey.
Fall 2025 Schedule:
a glimpse of butoh-ish performance practice in perpetual development. we will seek movement that emerges from sensation and impulse through extended warm-up and exploration of score. open to all. (butoh goblin mode is individual work, not contact.)
Sensing the Unseen is an experimental, sensory-driven movement ritual that invites participants to step beyond choreography and into the raw intelligence of their bodies. Blending yoga, somatics, intuitive dance, breathwork and vocal expression, this class becomes an exploration of what moves us physically, emotionally and energetically.
We work with sensation as our guide: breath, rhythm, tension, softness and impulse. This offering centers reclamation of voice, instinct, and expression, inviting movement that is honest rather than performative. Accessible to all levels and especially supportive for “non-dancers” seeking inner connection and embodied freedom.
An exploration of repetition , habits that write our characteristics of self and how to become fluent in our own physical language. With extreme physicality we learn to push our own boundaries, cycle through emotions until exertion only to be left in our most pure state. The eternal research of our human form , in relationship to others and beyond this body.
In Amateur Hour, participants engage with Barnett Cohen‘s performance practice through the collaborative construction of a ten-minute experimental piece based on a text-based score composed by Cohen in advance. The workshop explores how text can translate into embodied movement as participants and Cohen hash out choreographic phrases together. Through repetition, participants internalize the structure and logic of the score, discovering how text functions as a framework for collective movement creation. The workshop requires no prior dance or performance experience. Everyone is welcome.
All artists draw from their lives with the product rarely leaving the realms of personal history but can we think of our stories doing more than retelling? This workshop builds approaches to abstraction from the Self: mining the similarities, mapping the differences, to reveal an exciting syntax that could be a shared phrase or chorus. Centering disability aesthetics, participants will create using movement, text, and sound to translate personal memory into a shared context, bridging gaps between their own histories and the world in which they live in order to be read liberally.
When we sing along to a song, in the shower or otherwise, our breath syncs up to breath caught on record. We measure our lungs’ capacity to keep up with those who breathe for sport. We fail, we laugh, we connect to the words. We mishear the words, and yet we know the message intimately. We exchange memories of where we were during so-and-so’s era. We record concerts and upon rewatch can only hear our voice, the mistaken lyrics, and the rhythm of the bass. We scream out to the heavens in karaoke or chant using words already said and cliches as shorthand to more accurately communicate our woes.
Collective chant has healing properties for the limbic system. Discordant chants may be a generative space to find a new method of system regulation in the ugly, peculiar, or out of time. SLOP POP borrows from the tradition of karaoke to create entirely original scores from songs already sung, hollowed out archetypes and easily identifiable rhythms. Get ready to develop a new relationship with a song or artist you know and love or hate. During this workshop, we will draw on our collective memory bank of found text – lyrics or otherwise – and overlay it onto the backtrack of pop songs. From individual movement and vocal work, we will find overlap in artists or themes amongst ourselves to create loose group scores for an audience of none. No experience is necessary. We’re not showcasing impressive vocals, we’re building together through our voice. Come ready to scream and shout and let it all out.
PERFORM LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING! (WE WON’T BE).
How is the body a material to be explored, and what is the criteria by which we interpret the movement of others? How do we understand presence, and how can it be crafted, formed, molded and designed into choreography? Participants in this workshop will explore various group movement scores to expand the infinite ways in which we can be together. Everyone of all ability, age and experience level is welcome.
DIDIDADA is guided dance improvisation facilitated by Coco Villa. This movement practice prioritizes accessibility & playfulness to uplift body, mind and spirit through a variety of breath work, hyper warm ups, & abstract movement prompts. It’s about catharsis, sweating, getting back into our bodies, & simply dancing for the joy of moving. Instruction is inspired by elementary school PE activities, modern dance, Caribbean dance styles, dance fitness, somatic movement practices, groovy improvisations & familial rituals.
Some call it a brain break. Some call it a waking up game. Some call it a dance class. There is no choreography. DIDIDADA is open to all levels.
Time and history are phenomena that organize experience, bodies, and sticky spaces between. Between objects, between people, between thoughts. How does information move? Who and how does it touch? Can ongoingness be sensed from within ongoingness?
If knowledge is able to propel itself, fueled by something like desire, then perhaps we, both as individuals and assembly, can help it along.
In this workshop, we will use guided imagery and movement, reading, misreading, and listening practices to explore philosophical questions in experimental and associative ways. All are welcome.
All spiritual practices of note taking place outside a traditional house of worship start with movement leading to full body release allowing the spirit to emerge. Find the spiritual alchemical thread in unhindered movement, breath-work, interpersonal interchange and vocal release.
Warm up includes walking, running and breathwork.