Richard Move

Richard Move
Richard Move (Photograph by Philip Habib)
Born	New York City
Education	Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA) City College of New York (MFA) New York University (MA) New York University (Ph.D. ABD)
Occupation	choreographer, performer, director, filmmaker
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Website	move-itproductions.com

Richard Move is a present-day choreographer, dancer, performing artist, director, and filmmaker. He is the Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move- It! Productions. Move is well known internationally for his interest in Martha Graham and the ability to recreate her performances. He is a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and TEDxWhiteOak co-curator and organizer. Move is Lecturer in Design at Yale School of Drama. He is Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College, CUNY.

Born in New York City and raised in Virginia, Move studied theater and dance in high school and caught his first glimpse of Martha Graham's work on a high school field trip to Washington D.C. Move spoke of Graham's dance and said, "The dance was beyond my comprehension at the time, but I understood it was mythic and dramatic and so sexy and violent." He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University as a dance major and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He also trained for three years as a scholarship student at the American Dance Festival. While performing internationally with many dance-theater companies, from the Karole Armitage Ballet to DANCENOISE, Move worked as a go-go dancer and performed in many nightclubs throughout the world. His birth name was Richard Winberg but was given the stage name Move by those he worked with in the nightclub industry. He is co-founder of the late-night cabaret Jackie 60, one of New York City's most notorious and avant-garde nightclubs. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Media Arts Production from City College of New York and a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University. Move is presently a Ph.D. (ABD) in Performance Studies at New York University, where he curated and produced the controversial Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later- An Exhibition and Symposium. Art in America noted, "The overwhelming turnout for the symposium-turned-courtroom drama was much larger than the venue…the only such events to ever explicitly confront the circumstances surrounding her death and to overtly frame Carl Andre's acquittal of her murder as unjust."