PLAY MOTION LAB

The mission of Play Motion Lab began in an effort to provide affordable classes and workshops as the cost of open classes, workshops, and training for dancers continues to rise unsustainably. 

It has now expanded as a groundswell and niche space to build community amongst professional dancers actively working in New York.

To date we have served over 400+ dancers and held workshops across New York, San Francisco, Peru, and Hawaii.

PLAY

A space to play openly with ideas, concepts, movement. Freely without judgment. 

MOTION

The basis of our world is movement and motion.

LAB

An open lab for research, work, experimentation, and exploration.

UPCOMING CLASSES/WORKSHOPS

FREE BALLET FREE BALLET FREE BALLET with Peter Cheng

Blending Peter’s formative training at LINES Ballet, FREE BALLET offers movers a method to dance spaciously, find nuance in articulation, and gives renewed perspective to classical ballet technique.

All movers are required to have an intermediate/advanced level of ballet training to attend.

(Level: INT/ADV)

Date & Time:

Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 6pm-8pm

Location: Chez Bushwick, 304 Boerum St #23, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Cost: Free

Play Motion Lab is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

MASTERCLASS SERIES | ECS 2026

Play Motion Lab X Contemporary Ballet Forms - ECS 2026 Masterclass

Hosted by Mare Nostrum Elements, Founding Director Peter Cheng (‘20 Emerging Choreographer Series Alumni), will be teaching Contemporary Ballet Forms.

Blending his formative training with LINES Ballet, Contemporary Ballet Forms offers dancers novel ways to think and move fluidly through space, to find nuance in articulation, and to move generously and effortlessly within the ballet language.

(Level: INT/ADV)

Date & Time:

Saturday, February 7, 2026 | 11am-1pm

Location: Gibney Dance 280, 53A Chambers St 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10007

Cost: $12