[6] Movement Research's first benefit presentation was held in April of 1979 at 40 Irving Place, and featured dancers Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield and Douglas Dunn.

[8] In 1982, Movement Research’s Studies Project begins to take shape, curating a space for community dialogues that focus on issues of aesthetics and philosophy at the intersection of dance and social politics.

[9] Participants included the likes of Mark Morris, Senta Driver, Molissa Fenley, Bill T. Jones, Steve Paxton, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Bill Irwin, David Gordon, Rachel Rosenthal, Blondell Cummings, Ethyl Eichelberger, David Cale, Pooh Kaye, Robert Whitman, Kei Takei, Joan Jonas, Dana Reitz, Kenneth King, Jim Self, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Remy Charlip, Meredith Monk & such moderators as Paul Langland, William Harris, Sally Banes, Simone Forti, Mary Overlie & Stephanie Skura.

[11] Under Administrative Director Richard Elovich, Movement Research sought to adjust its role in accordance to the political climate, which was deeply influenced by the ongoing AIDS crisis and its effect on the dance community.

[16][17] After 40 years jumping from various temporary locations and many dance studios across lower Manhattan, Movement Research moved into its first permanent home at 122 Cultural Center at 150 First Avenue in 2019.

Editor Richard Elovich, the Executive Director, and Associate Editor Michael Sexton write, "With this first issue of Movement Research, we open a new public space for the New York performance community: a textual space in which artists can develop a critical relationship to the work being produced around us…Recognizing a real lack of opportunity for choreographers, dancers, writers, musicians, and performers to engage in each others’ work analytically, we have created Movement Research as a slightly anarchic forum in which opposing ideas and aesthetics can be seriously developed and debated…In a time when the arts and artists are seriously under attack, a dialogue among artists develops both the rigorous introspection and the larger commitment of a community, creating a vision necessary for survival.