Valuing the individual artist, their creative process, and their vital role within society, Movement Research (MR) is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. MR strives to reflect the cultural, political, and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.

Movement Research was founded in 1978 as the School for Movement Research and Construction and has been hosting performances and workshops at Judson Memorial Church since 1991. In its long history, the organization has prioritized giving space to artists for rehearsing, developing, and investigating—rather than presenting and producing—their work. Many of the founders of MR were participants in Judson Dance Theater and the work that followed; artists who performed in its first public performance in 1979 include Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, and Douglas Dunn. Now based in the 122 Cultural Center and led by Barbara Bryan, MR is one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. MR offers classes, workshops, and events, including Movement Research at the Judson Church. MR also provides artist residencies, year-round internship and performance opportunities, subsidized rehearsal space, international artist exchanges, and a teaching-artist program with New York City public schools. Additionally, MR produces two publications: the Movement Research Performance Journal, and Critical Correspondence.

Jerome Foundation supports Movement Research’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program. Annually supporting 7–8 early career New York City-based choreographers, performing artists, interdisciplinary artists, and movement artists’ engagement in creative research, investigation, and experimentation—without the requirement and pressure to create a final product—MR’s AIR program is flexible and is customized in collaboration with the participating artists, to best serve each artist’s interests, needs, and schedules. The MR AIR Residency provides early career generative dance artists with support through residency fees, free rehearsal space, professional development, national and international exchange opportunities, and other formats for investigative discourse to NYC-based early artists to support their creative process in a supported and constructive environment. AIRs also have the opportunity to present work-in-process in the Movement Research at the Judson Church program, a low-tech and high-profile program that is in great demand by artists and audiences. The AIR program is managed by Director of Artist Programs, Marýa Wethers.