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 500+ 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

OCTOBER | CONTACT IMPROV JAM

CONTACT IMPROV JAM combines forces with Ching-I Chang, Marie Lloyd Paspe, and PLAY. MOTION. LAB. in a three hour guided jam. 

You are invited to create a space where our intelligence can move beyond words, a place to re-member and reconnect with the childlike play, curiosity, and wild authenticity within us. We will spend the first hour offering contact exercises with both dancing body and voice, to warm up our listening, surrendering, and igniting of senses with each other.

The last two hours will be an open jam with live music, including clarinet accompaniment by Founding Director Peter Cheng. Additional musicians to be announced.

Please bring knee pads.

All levels welcome.

Date & Time: Sunday, October 25, 2026 | 3pm-6pm

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

Cost: Free

📸 Photo Credits: Marie by Jason Lam, Ching-I by Travis Magee, Peter by Sergio Carrasco

Play Motion Lab is a 2025 and 2026 Grantee of the Brooklyn Arts Fund, 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.