Through the Movement Research Labs (MRL), ICK offers choreographers and dancers the opportunity to engage in in-depth research into the development of their own dance and movement languages, as well as peer-to-peer exchanges.

The Movement Research Labs provide a unique context for dance research, developed by ICK in collaboration with Scott deLahunta, drawing on input, guidance and feedback informed by long-standing, internationally recognised expertise in dance notation, documentation, knowledge transfer and publication.

One of the Labs’ key principles is the development of “skilful entanglement” between bodily and verbal language. Space is created for the unspoken and inexpressible, while participants simultaneously refine and sharpen their skills in articulating, describing and communicating insights, experiences and danced expression.

This process aims to nurture the ongoing development of specific, conscious and distinctive ways in which the dancing body articulates itself.