Led by Choreographer and Artistic Director Marla Phelan, Movement Museum creates multi-disciplinary works rooted in dance. Committed to elevating artists while expanding the way audiences experience dance, we offer low-cost, high-caliber performances and outreach initiatives that make dance accessible to all.
Marla Phelan is a choreographer and performer whose work spans stage, film, and immersive installations. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Movement Museum, a multidisciplinary company fusing choreography, theater, science, film, and technology to craft visceral worlds of physical rigor and emotional depth.
Her choreography has been presented by La MaMa ETC, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, Dixon Place, and Gibney Center, with features in V Magazine, Nowness, and New York Magazine. She has choreographed for Kinlaw, Fischerspooner, Michael C. Hall, Maison Margiela, Mugler, Mazda, Emursive llc, The Mckittrick Hotel (Creative Director), City Springs Theater, Theater Aspen, and Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof National Tour.
Phelan premiered her evening-length interdisciplinary dance theater work, Birth + Carnage, in December 2025 with a sold out run presented by La MaMa at the Ellen Stewart Theater. Reach out to marla@marlaphelan.com for inquires.