The Movement Journal
Where movement becomes scholarship.
This is a first.
The Movement Journal is the first peer-reviewed publication where human movement is the primary scholarly object. Submit a recording. Receive editorial review. Get a DOI. Your movement becomes permanently citable in academic literature.
That is new. Nothing like this has existed before.
How it works.
Submit a motion capture recording, dance film, or oral narrative. Every submission undergoes peer review by movement scholars and cultural consultation by tradition-bearers. Accepted submissions receive a permanent DOI and full contributor attribution. Your movement enters a living, growing scholarly record built from over 80 documented movement works.
Submission is free. Always.
For structured editorial feedback, movement analysis, and professional transcription for audio narrative submissions, a supported review tier is available at $75. You are not paying to publish. You are supporting a commons.
What we need from you.
A movement sequence you can frame, situate, and credit. Three citations: scholarly, movement, and cultural. The cultural citation credits the tradition-bearers the movement comes from. It is the most important one.
No institutional affiliation required. Submissions as short as thirty seconds.
Be among the first.
The researchers, artists, and communities who submit now become the founding contributors of something the field will rely on for a long time.
Submit your work. Write to us at admin@thetriadic.studio.
Review Board
The scholars and practitioners who evaluate submissions to the Movement Journal.
Nadav Heyman
Dance Film and Screendance
Award-winning American filmmaker, dancer, and writer. Founder and Executive Director of dancefilmmaking.com, the world's largest curated platform for dance films (launched May 2023). Key works include Old Man at the Corner Store (2023, multi award winner), as·phyx·i·a·tion (2019, published by Dance Magazine, created during a Subhashok Art Center residency in Thailand). Screenplay Jackie and The Rats was a 2022 semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. Edited the Universal motion picture Doula, produced by Chris Pine. Judge and board member, Los Angeles Dance Film Festival. Inaugurated the Dance Film of the Year award (2024) with twelve international festival judges. Guest lecturer at UT Austin, CalArts, USC, and VCU.
Kate Sicchio, Ph.D.
Dance and Technology
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, media artist, and researcher whose work reimagines how bodies and technologies move together in performance. Her practice spans live coding, wearable systems, and choreorobotics, creating works where dancers and intelligent machines co-generate choreography in real time.
Colette Krogol
Dance Film and Interdisciplinary Practice
Co-founder of Orange Grove Dance, a Los Angeles based company working across dance film, installation, and live performance. Orange Grove Dance creates work that bridges choreography, cinema, and visual art, with screenings and performances at international dance film festivals.
Matt Reeves
Dance Film, Design, and Technology
Co-founder of Orange Grove Dance alongside Colette Krogol. Brings expertise in design, technology, and cinematic production to dance film practice. Orange Grove Dance operates at the intersection of choreographic thinking and visual storytelling.
Sudesh Mantillake, Ph.D.
South Asian Dance and Performance Studies
Senior Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Former Head of Department (2020-2023). PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland. Trained in Kandyan dance and Kathak (Bhatkhande Sangit Vidyapith, Lucknow). Vice-Chair (Dance), ICTMD National Committee for Sri Lanka. Creator of My Devil Dance, Mask and Myths (performed in Chicago for the 125th anniversary of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition), and dance film In Search of Ravana. William F. Quillian Jr. Visiting International Professor, Randolph College (2024-2025). MSc in Cultural Heritage Communication, University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Kate Spanos, Ph.D.
Dance Ethnography and Dances of Resistance
Dancer, educator, scholar, and arts administrator. Faculty fellow in the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches dance ethnography. Her scholarship focuses on dances of resistance and social change, especially in Brazil, Ireland, and the Eastern Caribbean. Irish dancer with an M.A. in traditional Irish dance performance from the University of Limerick and Ph.D. in dance and performance studies from the University of Maryland. Postdoctoral Fulbright scholar in Recife, Brazil (2018). Co-author of Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences (Routledge, 2023). Co-founder of EducArte, a 501(c)3 offering Brazilian arts education in the Washington DC region.