One of their best-known works,
Martha@... on the life and work of Martha Graham was created in 1996 and received two
New York Dance and Performance Awards. Move has performed nearly 30 dances by Graham including
Lamentation, Clytemnestra, Episodes and
Phaedra. Their films include
Strangers With Candy (2006),
Bardo (2009), recipient of the Jury Prize nomination at Lincoln Center's Dance on Camera Festival and
BloodWork-The Ana Mendieta Story (2009), recipient of the National Board of Review Award/CityVisions at the Directors Guild of America. Move's feature film
GhostLight (2003) had its World Premiere at the
Tribeca Film Festival, is distributed by
Palisades Tartan and was released on DVD in June 2012.
GhostLight also stars
Ann Magnuson with
Isaac Mizrahi,
Deborah Harry and
Mark Morris. Reviews of
Ghostlight include "Glorious" by A.O. Scott of
The New York Times and "Richard Move is magnificent...Graham herself couldn't have done better." by Jami Bernard of
The Daily News. Move is Director and Producer of
GIMP-The Documentary, which premiered at the 2014 Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival. 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." Move performed in
DANCENOISE: Show at the
Whitney Museum of American Art's 2015 retrospective. They have also created many
musicals and
dance performances. Some of their most famous are
Martha@..., Le Petomane (2006 and 2011), winner of the Outstanding Musical Award at the New York Fringe Festival, and
Lamentation Variations (2007) commissioned by the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Martha@... continues to be of great interest and "[Move] sees no shortage of interest or material." Some critics do not like Richard Move's versions of Graham's dances and accuse him of false interpretations. Others regard Move as "The definitive, living history of one of dance's great artists."
Martha@...The 1963 Interview, named "Best of 2011" by
ARTFORUM International, Time Out and numerous other publications, had its World Premiere at New York's Dance Theater Workshop in March 2011 and returned for encore performances in November 2011 at New York Live Arts. 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..." 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. Move's
Martha@ continues to be presented internationally, including their work
Martha@The Ravello Festival in Italy, in 2016. In 2017, Move presented the world premiere staging of Martha Graham’s little known 1928 solo,
Immigrant, at the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which was commissioned by the Museum. 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@.... 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. Look at the statistics around these lives, from the New York City Anti-Violence Project — they’re staggering."
New York Times critic Brian Seibert noted, "The greatest fascination of the program lay in the contrast ... Through Move, these voices spoke to each other, and to us." At MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in 2013, Move appeared as Graham in
20 Dancers for the XX Century, described by
The New York Times as, "…Move also was the art. The Graham choreography they performed was an exhibit, yet so were they: a dancer as a living archive of dance.” Conceived by Boris Charmatz’ Musée de la Danse, “… Move and 19 other distinguished dancers inhabited spaces all through the building…” Move was on exhibit as Graham at Singapore’s
Asian Civilisations Museum in 2014. 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. As Artistic Director of
MoveOpolis! their dance, theater and interdisciplinary works have been presented internationally.
MoveOpolis! 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). Move's
The Show (Achilles Heels), originally commissioned and performed by
Mikhail Baryshnikov and the
White Oak Dance Project, has been hailed by
Dance Magazine as "...a powerful, iconoclastic theater piece that's made to measure for 21st Century." And, by
The Star Ledger as "A brilliant work and the most revolutionary work Baryshnikov has commissioned."
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. In 2013, the Martha Graham Dance Company premiered
The Show (Achilles Heels) at New York's Joyce Theater.
The Financial Times review headline read, "Graham's 'Phaedra' was impressive for its storytelling, but it was another choreographer’s work that stole the show,” and proclaimed Move's work an "...hour long tour de force...now set on the Graham company, where it deserves a long life." 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." Move also conceives, directs and stages large-scale, multi-media events including productions for the European Cultural Capitol of France, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, and, in 2014, at the
Parrish Art Museum. They choreographed Dame Shirley Bassey's
Diamonds are Forever at the Cannes Film Festival AMFAR Gala and directed Isaac Mizrahi in his acclaimed one-man show,
LES MIZrahi, "Director Richard Move and Mizrahi have created a triumph."
Time Out. 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. Move's many television appearances include A&E's
Role Reversal, HBO's Emmy Award-winning
The Artist is Present, Sundance Channel's
Iconoclasts, A&E's
Biography, BBC's
Bourne to Dance and PBS'
City Arts, on Move's work, which received an Emmy Award. Their other stage credits include Edward Albee's ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' The FUSION Theater Company of New Mexico's controversial 2004 production featured Move as
Martha in this iconic masterpiece. "No sharper black wit can be found in American theater, and this cast wield that wit with the precision of brain surgeons." ==Cease and Desist==