The six modules and their pre-requisites are described below.
Each module is 15 days in length with contact hours from 9 to 5pm each day.
Two modules per year will be offered; one in the Spring school holidays and one in the Autumn school holidays.
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Pre-requisites: Tertiary level Anatomy and Physiology or Experiential Anatomy
Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis
The first module deepens and develops understanding and application of basic principles in Rudolf Laban’s language of movement. These principles are studied within the framework of Laban Movement Analysis (LMASM), which includes recognising and working with fundamental components of any physical action, delineated in categories of ‘Body, Effort, Shape, and Space’. It provides in-depth study and practice in utilising LMA as a framework for movement analysis, while enhancing movement experience, movement vocabulary and non-verbal communication. In this module, you will develop refined skills in movement observation as well as the ability to use a codified system of movement analysis when working with others, analysing your own work, staging/choreographing, communicating non-verbally, writing about or researching movement. Included is exploration in your individual perceptual biases in communicating and understanding non-verbal behaviour—whether in performance, teaching, clinical practice, or in everyday life.
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Pre-requisite: Introduction to Bartenieff Fundamentals sm
The second module expands and builds understanding and personal movement development through in-depth work in the principles and practice of Bartenieff Fundamentals sm (BF), and developmental work in Body-Mind Centering. The goal of BF is to facilitate ease and efficiency, and enhanced neuro-muscular patterning in any functional or expressive movement activity. This practice includes building awareness and articulation on a ‘body level’, through experience with movement initiation, sequencing, body organization, breathing and breath support, body architecture, grounding, and whole body integration. These principles can be applied to somatic practices, dance technique, theatre performance, martial arts and Yoga, and any body/mind practice; or for overall enhancement of personal embodiment.
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The third module includes deepening and elaborating the use of Shape in communication, movement expression and interaction, and relationship to oneself and one's environment. It includes the development of self-awareness in one's expression of identity, intention, and qualitative involvement with others. From discovering 'meta'-Shape as an overall container for movement, to phrasing in Shape, and individual micro qualities of Shape, this module cultivates a rich ground for refining personal movement patterns into larger social and environmental contexts.
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The fourth module includes an experiential, in-depth focus on Laban's concept of Effort, or movement dynamics, and its qualitative coloring of all movement. This module also includes aspects of Modes of Shape; along with Effort Factors and Elements, Rhythm and Phrasing, States and Drives--in application to performance, presentation, and identifying patterns of individual expressive and communication styles. Work in this module will develop the student's range of dynamic potential, as well as enhance the ability to recognise and respond to 'feeling' quality in movement. Laban's Effort concepts have been drawn upon for decades in theatre training, dance movement therapy practice and training, creative movement education, and for developing one's ability to put inner states into outer expression.
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Prerequisite: Module Three
These modules occur during the same teaching session, offering the opportunity for completion of both modules over a 5-week teaching period, to complete the Certificate training in LMA. Participation in Modules Five/Six requires successful completion of Module Three, and includes in-depth study and practice in Laban's sophisticated and illuminating theories of 'Space Harmony'; while enhancing intentional use of space, supported through the integration of changing qualities and modes of Shape. Laban's theories of Space as expressed in human movement patterns, draw on inner and outer unfolding spatial form and structure, repeating and balancing patterns of movement reflected in nature - specifically in the design of Plato's five solid polyhedra. Exploration and practice in this module develops the awareness and greater capacity for moving in space with intentionality, fullness, and greater adaptability. It also prepares the student for integrating elements of BESS into a final Certification Project.
After completion of Module Five, students who have completed all previous modules can progress within the same teaching session to Integrating in A Final Application Project, in Module Six. Alternatively, students who have not completed previous modules, will have the opportunity later to return for the last two teaching weeks of Module Six.
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Prerequisite(s): Modules One through Five
The sixth module requires successful completion of all previous modules, and culminates in the formal presentation of the student’s chosen application project. This project is required for the award of Certification in Movement Analysis (CMA) from LIMS. Application can involve research into personal creative process and personal growth, a choreographic project, teaching, one-on-one or group movement therapy work, applying LMA to other disciplines, or considering LMA in relation to another body/mind framework. Presentations are open to faculty and students, and by individual invitation.
The student will submit a Project proposal during Module Five and will work on completion of the project during Modules Five and Six. Class time in Module Six will include theoretical and practical integration of all aspects of BESS; as well as provide opportunity for feedback and input on your project development.
There will be a graduation ceremony and other events as closure to completion of the Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis.
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Introductory Course in Laban Movement Analysis
Current courses available (click to download)
Originated by movement theorist Rudolf Laban, Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a framework of individual and universal principles developed by his students and exponents as a way of observing, participating in and understanding movement. With a language for describing human movement both quantitatively and qualitatively, LMA offers and invaluable system for recognising both the structure of movement as well as its potential meaning within that structure. Additionally, by exploring how we experience ourselves and others in movement, we discover further potential for creating volume and flexibility in our experience of space, and reveal our patterns of relating, communicating, and expressing ourselves nonverbally.
The purpose of the introductory course is to expose participants to the fundamental outline of LMA through experiences that awaken sensory awareness, and help us more clearly understand our thoughts, feelings and intuitions expressed in movement. As perceptual filters, these qualities affect how we participate in and respond to any situation; and knowing more about how we perceive can broaden and deepen our worldview. LMA supports our thinking process and enhances our language to express our lived experience. This somatic approach to observation, being, and understanding can be utilised in such diverse fields as the performing arts, yoga, fitness and athletics, health and rehabilitation, social sciences and nonverbal communication.
Introductory Course in Bartenieff Fundamentals sm
Current courses available (click to download)
As a somatic practice, Bartenieff Fundamentals focuses on movement re-patterning in a process of deepening sensory awareness. Kinetic 'chains' of neuro-muscular patterning become fundamental to all movement organisation early in life, and continue to affect the quality of both function and expression in all our movement experiences. In addition to the basic 6 movement sequences, Bartenieff Fundamentals practice addresses our individual balance between movement themes such as Exertion/Recupertion and Stability/Mobility; and includes anatomical as well as qualitative concepts involved in efficient and integrated movement patterning. Returning to developmental movement patterns we have an opportunity to re-pattern our movement sequencing and functional bodily organisation. Through connecting with internal processing of our movement experience we gain greater understanding of how we live in the world, and what choices we have to live in the world differently. A somatic approach to Bartenieff Fundamentals practice enhances this self awareness and personal growth, and provides opportunity for creating more effective movement choices which form the basis of our physical experiences. In this introductory course you will discover, for example, relationships between: the breath and core support; movement initiation and sequencing; centres of gravity/levity and shifts of weight; and developmental patterning and dynamic alignment.
In a bodymind practice, our bodies and ourselves are one home. Exploring and moving from our sensing bodies as home, enables us to express more clearly our shared and lived experiences, while we come to a greater understanding of the body-mind connection. This knowledge is readily applied to dance and yoga technique and teaching, theatre performance, martial arts, movement and physical therapy, and any body/mind practice; or for overall enhancement of personal embodiment.
Introductory Course in Anatomy and Biomechanics of Movement
Current courses available (TBA)
This introduction is an experiential exploration and discovery of elements of functional anatomy from the perspective of our proprioceptive and interoceptive systems. In the process of experiencing musculo-skeletal anatomical elements, you will also discover the possibility for more imaginative and nurturing approaches to working with your bodily experience. Learning anatomical concepts through physical experience holds more lasting meaning than disembodied anatomical learning, and helps to bring into closer relationship the anatomical and the lived body for each of us individually. Participants will become more sensitive to change in body sensation which is created by movement, by intentional touch, and by addressing anatomical concepts as a moment-to-moment visualising, sensing experience. An integrated approach to theory and practice will be presented through the use of images, hands-on-work, and experiencing everyday movement within a context of curiosity and discovery.
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