Richard Move, Ph.D.
New York University, Dance, Faculty Member
- Richard Move, Ph.D., M.F.A., is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, NYPL Dance Research Fellow, TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow, Director of MoveOpolis! and Assistant Arts Professor at New York University. Move’s commissions include works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project, Martha Graham Dance Company, European Cultural Capital, Guggenheim Museum, Gard... moreRichard Move, Ph.D., M.F.A., is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, NYPL Dance Research Fellow, TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow, Director of MoveOpolis! and Assistant Arts Professor at New York University. Move’s commissions include works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project, Martha Graham Dance Company, European Cultural Capital, Guggenheim Museum, Gardner Museum, Deborah Harry, Shirley Bassey and Isaac Mizrahi. Move’s works as filmmaker include Bardo, BloodWork—The Ana Mendieta Story, GhostLight and GIMP. Martha@..., Move’s performance as/of Martha Graham, received two New York Dance and Performance Awards and tours globally. Move earned their PhD, MPhil and MA in Performance Studies at New York University after receiving their MFA in Media Arts Production from CUNY, and their BFA in Dance at Virginia Commonwealth University.edit
When invited to create a retrospective of her sculptural works, the artist Janine Antoni preferred to ask herself what her works would look like when interpreted by other artists and translated into movement. Together with the... more
When invited to create a retrospective of her sculptural works, the artist Janine Antoni preferred to ask herself what her works would look like when interpreted by other artists and translated into movement. Together with the choreographers Anna Halprin and Stephen Petronio, Antoni created unique performance artworks whose main focus is corporeality, revealing the enormous potential that lies in the combination of sculpture and dance. Published in cooperation with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and featuring critical essays by a diverse array of writers and art theorists, ALLY shows how these artists have worked together to create a new pictorial language. Editor, Adrian Heathfield.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Performing Arts, Dance Studies, Creative processes in contemporary dance, and 15 morePerformance Studies, Queer Theory, Dance Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Performance Art, Dance History, Dance and Aesthetics, Dance Education, Modern and Contemporary Dance, Dance, Women and Gender Studies, Queer, Dance Research, Disco queer dance club culture, and Philosophy of Dance and Theatre Arts
This chapter examines Richard Move’s performance of the late Martha Graham by focusing on Martha@The1963Interview, based on an audio recording of Graham’s 1963 onstage interview with dance critic and historian, Walter Terry, at New York's... more
This chapter examines Richard Move’s performance of the late Martha Graham by focusing on Martha@The1963Interview, based on an audio recording of Graham’s 1963 onstage interview with dance critic and historian, Walter Terry, at New York's 92nd St. Y. Martha@The1963Interview is the 2011 and 2014 iteration of Move’s Martha@...series of performances that began in 1996. The chapter centers on Move’s reproduction of Graham’s voice as the point of entry into their reenactments, tracing Move’s process of capturing Graham’s voice at the age of 69, when she could no longer perform her signature ballets and would soon retire from the stage. With her body in swift decline and quickly approaching what she called her “first death,” when she could no longer dance, Graham relies instead on her voice to dance for her. Move finds Graham’s voice at this particular moment in her career through a method they’ve developed and refined over the course of twenty years. This auto-analysis describes Move’s sonic embodiment of the audio recording and the mechanics of their paralinguistic vocal reenactment as it facilitates the emergence of Graham’s personae. A vocal emergence at times so powerful that its affective transmission has cast a spell and convinced even those who knew Graham intimately that they were experiencing Graham herself.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Performing Arts, Dance Studies, Creative processes in contemporary dance, and 15 morePerformance Studies, Queer Theory, Dance Anthropology, Anthropology Of Dance, Gender and Sexuality, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Performance Art, Performance, Queer Theory (Literature), Dance History, Dance and Aesthetics, Dance Education, Modern and Contemporary Dance, Dance Research, and Philosophy of Dance and Theatre Arts
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"There was an immediate and uncanny feeling of co-presence, between the three of us."- RICHARD MOVE