Richard Move is an American present-day choreographer, dancer, performing artist, director, and filmmaker. They are the Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move- It! Productions. Move is well known internationally for their interest in Martha Graham and the ability to recreate her performances. They are a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and was named 1 of 12 TED Fellows who inspire by producing art that confronts social injustice, and provokes action. Move is Assistant Arts Professor at New York University in the Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Dance. In 2018, Move was Artist in Residence at Pratt Institute and Monash University’s MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture) Artist in Residence in Melbourne, Australia. From 2014 – 2019, Move served as Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College, CUNY and from 2012-2014, as Lecturer in Design at Yale School of Drama. Early life and education Born in New York City and raised in Virginia, Move studied theater and dance in high school and caught their first glimpse of 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." They studied dance at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. They also trained for three years as a scholarship student at the American Dance Festival at Duke University. 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. Their birth name was Richard Winberg but was given the stage name Move by those they worked with in the nightclub industry. They were co-founder of Jackie 60, one of New York City's longest running and most exclusive avant-garde nightclubs. Move earned a Master of Fine Arts in Media Arts Production from City College of New York and a Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees in Performance Studies from New York University. Move earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University, where they curated and produced the controversial Ana Mendieta documentary Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later - An Exhibition and Symposium, which included his film, BloodWork - The Ana Mendieta Story. Art in America noted, "The overwhelming turnout for the symposium-turned-courtroom