Born in New York City and raised in Virginia,[7] Richard Move studied theater and dance in high school and first experienced Martha Graham's work on a high school field trip to Washington D.C. Move said of Graham, "The dance was beyond my comprehension at the time, but I understood it was mythic and dramatic and so sexy and violent."

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.

[12] Move is Director and Producer of GIMP-The Documentary, which premiered at the 2014 Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival.

[13] In 2017, they appeared in "SlowDancing/TrioA," a large scale video installation by artist, David Michalek, in collaboration with choreographer, Yvonne Rainer at New York's Danspace Project.

Roslyn Sulcas' review in The New York Times entitled, "Martha Graham Lives, and Is Interviewed" described Martha@...The 1963 Interview with, "Move brilliantly incarnates her..."[17] The production also featured Tony Award winning actress and playwright, Lisa Kron in the role originated by the late author and actor David Rakoff, and was presented at the 2014 Singapore International Festival of Arts.

[19] In 2017, Move was commissioned by New York Live Arts to create the opening event of the annual Live Ideas Festival and premiered two new works, XXYY, exploring the gender identity spectrum and Martha@20, a 20th anniversary edition of Martha@....[20] In an interview with The New York Times, Move spoke of the political importance of XXYY and told Siobhan Burke, "We seem to have taken a pretty large step backward in terms of understanding gender identity and accepting minoritarian sexuality.

The Graham choreography they performed was an exhibit, yet so were they: a dancer as a living archive of dance.”[23] Conceived by Boris Charmatz’ Musée de la Danse, “… Move and 19 other distinguished dancers inhabited spaces all through the building…”[23] The Financial Times stated, “Best of all was Richard Move’s setting…They caught her tragic Clytemnestra between the two massive screens for Douglas Gordon’s life-sized videos of elephants tromping then rolling helplessly on a Gagosian Gallery floor.”[24] Move was on exhibit as Graham at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum in 2014.

[25] Move was named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine and The New York Times has published six Sunday "Arts and Leisure" features on their work.

collaborators regularly include such notable figures as fashion designer Patricia Field (Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada), maverick filmmaker and visual artist Charles Atlas and writer Hilton Als (The New Yorker).

"[28] The Show (Achilles Heels) had its New York premiere at The Kitchen, featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Deborah Harry of Blondie and Rasta Thomas in the leading role originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov.

"[29] Move's other choreographic commissions include acclaimed works for PARADIGM (Carmen DeLavallade, Gus Solomons, Jr., and Dudley Williams), the American Festival of Paris, the Opera Ballet of Florence, Italy and for New York City Ballet Principal, Helene Alexopoulos, which The New York Times reviewed as "…stunning…first rate work from both.

They also produced and directed the infamous professional wrestler, The Iron Sheik, in his one-man show, which previewed at Caroline's in New York City.

"[33] Move’s Cease and Desist requests include those from the Martha Graham Entities,[34] The Estate of Ana Mendieta and Edward Albee.