The Movement Party is an open performance collaborative that aims to cultivate heightened social, political, and spatial awareness through an expanding set of embodied practices.

Since 2010, founders Katie Schetlick and Zena Bibler have created diverse initiatives that invite public participation in dance through performance installations, urban interventions, weekly movement classes, and a site-specific dance festival. We believe that careful consideration of how bodies are able or unable to move is essential to an understanding of one’s citizenship and suggest that increasing one’s range of motion translates to expanded awareness of one’s options that extends beyond the classroom or performance space.

By investigating our bodies’ relationship to and agency in space on an individual level, we endeavor to create new pathways and develop alternative gestures, investigating how these mobilizations play out in the larger choreographies of our social and political lives.