MOCA Movements 2026

MOCA Movements 2026
8th February - 28th February
Opening Event: 8th February 4pm - 6pm
Inside Screening 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Followed by outdoor screenings from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
Additional outdoor screenings will take place every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 5:30pm to 7:30pm until 28 February.

Featured Artists

Adelard Mugabe (Image 1)
Benedikte Esperi (Image 2)
Bronja Novak (Image 3)
Dora Frankel (Image 4)
Gun Lund (Image 5)

Monika Oechsler (Image 6)
Olof Persson (Image 7)
Roberto Ekholm & Cécile Emmanuelle Borra (Image 8)
Zena el Khalil (Image 9)

MOCA Movements 2026 marks the inaugural edition of MOCA London’s dance and movement screening and exhibition programme. This initiative presents a curated selection of films centred on dance and movement by a diverse range of artists and choreographers. The works will be projected onto the front windows of MOCA London and will also be made available for viewing on the website.

We are grateful to the filmmakers for their generosity in sharing their work and for granting permission for the films to be presented both as public projections and online. This dual presentation enables audiences across geographical borders to engage with MOCA Movements 2026. The selected films are innovative and compelling, offering thoughtful explorations of the relationship between dance and film. Collectively, they are visually striking and emotionally resonant.

The choreographic video works featured in the programme extends movement and dance beyond the traditional theatre context. Created specifically for the screen, they offer viewers an intimate encounter with the dancing body in dialogue with architectural and spatial environments. The moving body both articulates and disrupts space, drawing attention to surrounding details. The pieces are addressing themes about the environment, the political body, healing, and the lived experience of dance and movement.

Through the use of filmic angles, temporality and gesture, forms become both rhythmic and poetic. Industrial steel structures and skeletal concrete spaces juxtaposed with fluid, swirling dancers evoke the sensation of inhabiting a rapidly changing world. In contrast, interior settings of light and marble generate textures and spatial compositions that enhance the cinematic experience bringing us closer to the choreographers’ vision.

Many of the filmmakers in the programme employ editing and cinematic strategies to investigate liminal and transitional spaces, where “the body is a vehicle for translation” (Benedikte Esperi). These works navigate the performative body across staged, installation-based, conceptual and cinematic contexts. Choreographed expressly for the camera, they enable close observation and foster deeper critical engagement with dance and movement as artistic mediums.
MOCA London is delighted to introduce dance and movement into its programme, and we hope our audience will enjoy the first edition of MOCA Movements.

Roberto Ekholm, Curator