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 Don Christian Jones, Amando Houser, Delia Delia, Ariana Speight, MTHR TRSA, Charmaine Bee, Tess Dworman, Jonathan González, Gillian Walsh, and Performance Space New York’s Production Manager Sarai Frazier (presenting a workshop as part of their Alternative Education series).
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:
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an embodied workshop exploring movement as an extension of source — from where we come, what we carry, and where we might be going.
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Our bodies hold our brains, and our brains hold the worst ideas imaginable. In this movement-based clown workshop, we’ll explore how bad ideas might actually be the key to authentic expression.
Through games, vocal play, and dancing, we’ll let the bad ideas out and recognize their surprising beauty. What if the most awful idea is actually the best one?
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a gathering of sharing and processing data, memory, and content that has shaped us. During this generative workshop, participants will build a written and embodied archive through dialogue and note-taking, documenting noteworthy movies, television, and music. Together we embrace the rough edges, the crispy bits that make us unique. What brought you here? How did you get here? Where is home for you? Are you home?
Exploring: Loss of history. Nostalgia. Connection. Coming together to share stories. Kiki if you will. Memory. Sentimentality. Focusing on content / context. Keeping track. Making memories. Reminiscing. Restoration. [tldr]
Participants are encouraged to bring any comforts you may need. Take breaks. Zoom in, zone out. Come as you are. Tangents are welcome with resources and support available.
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Join TRSA to build a mega mix on the spot featuring group choreography, solo lip sync, and improve dialog. Come ready to move, perform, laugh and create something unforgettable together.
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During our time together in Liver Submersion Dream Workshop we will deep dive into the space that is our livers and think about how our relationship to our livers impact our sleep dream worlds. Our livers support us in so many regulatory functions, it is a filtration organ and supports in regulation of digestion or hormonal system and in TCM systems the liver is ruled by jupiter and is an organ that holds and filters emotions such as anger.
As we filter and process so many changes, shifts, in terms of climate change and our ecosystems, multiple wars and genocides, deaths, transitions, births, there is no denying that this impacts our mind, dreams and internal organs as we process. I find this time incredibly important to come together to support one another and process. We will discuss our current dream states as well as herbal support and dream practices that can hold us during this time!
Together we think about deep diving into our liver as a way to reclaim and remember our dreams and to use our dream space to speak to our liver. What do we want to gently support in releasing? What do we want to justifiably sit with a little longer?
We will look at ways to use herbs that support liver health and visualize swimming through our liver to support us through shifts and changes.
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Working together, we will experiment with various holds, including clasping, clutching, grasping, gripping, clenching, clinging to, holding in one’s hand, carrying, bearing, and cleaving.
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Dance makes no sense. What the hell are we doing? I tend to work with meditative practices, esoteric somatics, performance exercises, and, of course, “dance.” We will dance. No experience in dance or performance is necessary. I encourage beginners and non dancers of all ages to attend.
