WholeMovement

WholeMovement program in Rome - Module 1 2024
2024-07-12 08:00 - 2024-09-15 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Rome, Italy, Italy
Module 1A of WM’s Movement Analysis and Somatic Practice program –
The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) is the most widespread system in the world for understanding and analyzing the language of movement in expressive and functional terms.
It is a global system used to understand multiple aspects of human movement through observation and experience. The LBMS methodology incorporates a theoretical framework and specific terminology to describe movement. The system is used to identify, represent and interpret both macro and micro patterns of human movement. The system also grounded in the experience of the moving body and movement practices are a cornerstone of the training.
Contact: Chiara Parisi
https://www.chorondeprogettoeducativo.it/it/laban-bartenieff/lbms-corso-di-formazione-i-livello/

WholeMovement program in Israel - Module 1 2024
2024-06-26 08:00 - 2024-09-29 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) is the most widespread system in the world for understanding and analyzing the language of movement in expressive and functional terms.
It is a global system used to understand multiple aspects of human movement through observation and experience. The LBMS methodology incorporates a theoretical framework and specific terminology to describe movement. The system is used to identify, represent and interpret both macro and micro patterns of human movement. The system also grounded in the experience of the moving body and movement practices are a cornerstone of the training.

WholeMovement program in Rome
2023-07-22 - 2023-07-31 | Rome, Italy, Italy
Module 1A of WM’s Movement Analysis and Somatic Practice program –
The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) is the most widespread system in the world for understanding and analyzing the language of movement in expressive and functional terms.
It is a global system used to understand multiple aspects of human movement through observation and experience. The LBMS methodology incorporates a theoretical framework and specific terminology to describe movement. The system is used to identify, represent and interpret both macro and micro patterns of human movement. The system also grounded in the experience of the moving body and movement practices are a cornerstone of the training .

International Symposium LBMS 2022
2022-04-01 08:00 - 2022-04-03 22:30 (America/New_York)
Inspirees Institute and its partners are pleased to announce the International Symposium of LBMS (ISLBMS 2022), which will take place online April 1-3, 2022. This symposium is dedicated to Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff, who established what is now identified as the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS). The symposium will include other pioneers and practitioners who have continued to contribute and develop the work of its founders.
As LBMS is spreading out worldwide and has reached many fields to support the work of educators, artists, therapists, researchers and practitioners, there is constant need for sharing information and knowledge, dialoguing, professional training, and community building. This has become even more evident in the challenging time of Covid which has impacted the education and practice of many students and colleagues in our field. As an embodiment-based discipline, the legitimacy and efficacy of online learning and practicing continues to be discussed in our community. There has been a paradigm shift in our work requiring conscious and critical reflection, open and constructive discussion, and innovation and collaboration, and full engagement of our students, educators and colleagues.
In 2016, Inspirees partnered with LIMS to run the CMA certification program based on LBMS in China. There are in total more than 60 students in three cohorts from China and abroad trained through the China program (one cohort has completed the full program, another is halfway through and the third is just beginning). There are now 6 Chinese CMAs graduates.
This symposium invites all our students including: Inspirees LBMS, dance therapy, creative movement, authentic movement programs, as well as other students and colleagues in China and abroad. We hope to create with this event an international dialogue and collaboration forum and platform.
The format of the symposium is currently planned to be online due to the uncertainty of Covid. Dance/movement sessions will be included as well as lecture presentations to stimulate and relax body and mind of participants.
There are 5 major themes of the symposium: Education & Pedagogy, Health & Therapy, Arts performance, New applications, History & Theory. The keynotes (3), presentations (16), workshops (7), roundtable (1) featuring leading experts in our field, as well as the younger talents and colleagues will address these 5 themes.

Exploring the Dynamism of Human Movement: An introduction into the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) exploring its capacity to unpack the complex patterns of human movement
2022-01-08 - 2022-01-16
Participants will be introduced to how LBMS offers:

a comprehensive practice for ongoing development of the body/mind
a language of movement and taxonomy for describing action
a tool for movement analysis in multiple applications including all forms of dance

The workshop is also valuable for those seeking to update their knowledge of developments and expansion in the theories and practices of LBMS (LMA/BF)
The workshop will include an overview of LBMS connecting and integrating our abilities of sensing, feeling, and intuiting to our analytical thinking process in relation to the experience of action.
This workshop is being held at Towson University Baltimore Maryland
2 options –

half day 4 hr. introduction January 8th cost $110

or

4-day workshop (2 weekends) January 8,9,15,16 cost $475

For more information and to enroll contact TUCD@towson.edu

WholeMovement Continuing Education Workshop in Space Harmony
2021-09-14 07:30 - 2021-09-16 10:00 (America/New_York)
WholeMovement in collaboration with Inspirees Institute: Continuing Education Workshop in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System: The Wholeness of Duality as seen and experienced through Space Harmony

Master teachers and movement analysis training faculty Karen Studd and Cat Maguire in conjunction with Inspirees are pleased to offer an opportunity to deepen foundational knowledge of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. As teachers of WholeMovement, Karen and Cat have developed LBMS course work which seeks to blend theory and practice and to link personal development to professional application. As an integral part of WholeMovement and its approach to teaching they are committed to the ongoing evolution of the theory and practice of the System.

Duality is a foundational pattern. In the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System this is a construct seen throughout the entire system. Space Harmony is rich with patterns of duality including the “Duals” of the Geometry of the Platonic Solids. Which are used in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System as models of the personal Space of the Kinesphere in mapping the directions of our actions. In this Whole Movement workshop, starting with the Body Space Duality, we will explore the Space Harmony Dualities in relation to Innersphere and Kinesphere and our movement experience and expression. We will also link this to the other Movement Themes of Stability Mobility and Function Expression.

This master workshop is designed to support those with prior knowledge and experience of LBMS including those in training (or graduates from) Inspirees DMT, CM and LBMS programs. This workshop is also open for those who have exposure to the map of Space developed by Rudolf Laban who used the forms of the Platonic Solids to identify Spatial Directions and patterns of movement along pathways through the mover’s personal space. You are invited to deepen your awareness of and appreciation for the Space we contain – our Innersphere, and the Space we are contained within – the personal space of the Kinesphere.

Join Karen and Cat in this LBMS workshop reviewing aspects of Laban’s Space Harmony practice, primarily linked to patterns of duality including the “Duals” of the Geometry of the Platonic Solids. This workshop will focus on exploring how the theory and practice of Space Harmony can support both the observation and experience of movement in finding meaning. And how this in turn can support optimizing the capacity of movement both functionally and expressively.

Karen A. Studd

Karen has a Master’s degree in Dance from University of Oregon and is certified in movement analysis through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS). Studd is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association). Studd is a founding member of WholeMovement, a group of movement analysts working together to increase the visibility of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) worldwide. She also serves as a LIMS and Emove Program Coordinator and core faculty member and has taught LBMS in the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Israel and in China. In the USA she has taught for the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin, George Washington University, The University of Maryland and George Mason University in its School of Dance, where she was a tenured faculty for over twenty years.

As a teacher of LBMS, she is focused on both personal and professional development through movement awareness training. Her primary interest is in promoting the understanding of the significance and importance of human movement across all disciplines. Studd is a co-author of EveryBody is a Body, a text on the phenomenon of human movement now in its second edition.

Catherine (Cat) Maguire

Cat is a movement educator, dance artist, Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME), and a master teacher of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS). Cat has taught and co-coordinated Movement Analysis Certification Programs in the US, Europe, Mexico and China. Cat is also a collaborator and consultant for the Robotics, Automation and Dance (RAD) Lab under the direction of Dr. Amy LaViers where she works with roboticists on embodied movement training and analysis to support the development of expressive robotic systems. She is currently co-authoring a text under contract with MIT Press with Dr. LaViers on “Making Meaning with Machines”.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University with honors in dance and psychology, she was the artistic director of Offspring Dance Company in New York City and the founder and head of the dance program at Drew University in Madison, NJ. While executive director of Piedmont Council of the Arts in Charlottesville, Cat continued to teach, choreograph and perform throughout Central Virginia and internationally. She was assistant professor of dance at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC), and an integral part of the development and implementation of the associate’s degree in dance, the only one of its kind in the Virginia Community College System.

Currently, Cat teaches group classes and individual sessions in the Charlottesville VA area designed to foster self-expression, body connectivity and transformation through movement.

Logistical and additional information:

This workshop will be taught online through Zoom meeting room.
Dates:
Tuesday September 14th, 7:30am – 10am EST (NY time, 7:30pm -10 pm Beijing time )
Wednesday September 15th, 7:30am – 10am EST (NY time, 7:30pm -10 pm Beijing time )
Thursday September 16th,7:30am – 10am EST (NY time, 7:30pm -10 pm Beijing time )
The course is taught in English with Mandarin translation.

Tuition: 230USD, 185USD for early bird who pays the tuition before August 23.

A certificate of completion attesting to 7.5 hours of continuing education will be issued to those fully participate by WholeMovement and Inspirees Institute.

Please contact education@inspirees.com for further information.

ON SALES: Laban Webinar Series – History, Application and Frontiers

A WholeMovement approach to meeting the realities of online teaching and interactions
2020-09-23 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Online Webinar.
We movement educators and somatic movement practitioners must meet this era of Covid-19 in how we work, connect and interact. Our shared reality, in this moment in world history, is that most of our classes, meetings and other human interactions have moved to an online format. In facing this new reality, we must not simply applaud the technology that allows us to connect virtually, nor bemoan its interactive limitations. (It is not simply a matter of getting better at, or more comfortable with, using the technology.) We need to meet the challenges the situation poses and then use the tools of embodied somatic education to create interventions and solutions to the problematic patterns and limitations of connecting to others online. We need to understand what is and what is not possible through the online medium. Only then can we move forward to find our way to best practices in online experiences. It is the presenters’ belief that the embodied movement community should be the leaders in sharing this knowledge with other communities who have moved to online interactions. We need to inform people of the potentials as well as the pitfalls and guide them in how to be mindful of patterns (ones that have emerged, as well as patterns that are yet to come as more online and hybrid approaches replace or coincide with “old school” interactions in a shared time and space environment). The WholeMovement presenters will focus on how the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) can identify both positive and problematic patterns of working online, and model ways to address and adapt to these patterns.

Presenters
WholeMovement members and Certified Movement Analysts (CMA):

Laura Cox
Esther Geiger
Cat Maguire
Karen Studd

Complex Movement in Small Spaces
2020-06-10 09:30 - 2020-07-01 11:00 (America/New_York)
Mentoring a WholeMovement Approach in applying the
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System to teaching movement through the practice of Bartenieff Fundamentals
Led by WholeMovement member Cat Maguire
This limited enrollment class is designed as a way to workshop the mentoring of recently graduated Certified Movement Analysts, Yun Cheng, Sissi Peng and Katee Shen, who wish to eventually teach the LBMS material and to simultaneously provide a rich embodied movement experience (rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals) for participants. Enrollment will be kept to small numbers to ensure adequate engagement and feedback. If you are interested in this or future classes please email catmaguire83@gmail.com.
This class will meet through Zoom on Wednesdays, June 10, 17, 24 and July 1 from 9:30 – 11:00 am

Intro to The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (VA)
2020-05-23 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | mcguffey art center, 201 2nd street NW, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
Intro to The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for Somatic Therapists & Practitioners with Laura Cox & Karen Studd
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
Please check back for new dates and locations!

For those engaged in somatic practices – learn how the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) can enhance your own experience and support your practice.
LBMS is a comprehensive system used in understanding multiple aspects of human movement patterns. Using the LBMS framework, this workshop will focus on awareness of movement in the context of somatic practice, education and therapy. While all somatic practices value self-awareness as a key to living a rich and healthy life, a benefit of LBMS as a somatic practice lies in the consideration of the space through which we move in daily life as a vital aspect of how we interact, function and express ourselves in the world.
Workshop participants will gain an increased awareness of their own individual movement patterns and preferences through experience with basic Bartenieff Fundamentals sequences to reveal, repattern and enhance movement function and expression.
REGISTRATION:
Register by May 2nd and pay ONLY $85
Register between May 3rd and May 22nd and pay $100
On-site Registration: $115

A Wholemovement Approach to Moving the Anatomy of Innersphere
2020-05-21 10:00 - 2020-05-28 11:30 (America/New_York)
Led by Laura Cox & Hosted by Cat Maguire
Cat will be hosting a limited enrollment two episode movement exploration of the anatomy of the Innersphere (the space within the container of the body), led by Laura via Zoom, with the goal of: promoting enhanced awareness of the connection between and among parts of our anatomy to other parts; the connection of parts to the whole body; the connection of the whole body (as individual) to the wholeness of the space beyond the body (the interface between body and the support of the environment – Personal and General space).
Thursday, May 21 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
“Exploring the Innersphere of Core/Distal Anatomical Relationship”
Thursday, May 28 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
“Exploring the Innersphere of Upper/Lower Anatomical Relationship”
If you are interested in this or future classes please email catmaguire83@gmail.com.

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System through a WholeMovement Approach
2020-05-02 - 2020-05-04
A Three-Day LBMS Workshop May 2-4 with Karen Studd
(Participate through ZOOM or in Shanghai)

Content of Workshop
System Overview – Patterns – making sense of the world and ourselves in it -humans as pattern makers and pattern perceivers – all humans are already movement analysts – Identifying 3 large overall patterns as linked to our perception and experience
Observation – through seeing, sensing, feeling and interpreting – how our awareness and language to support this process.
Experience – What do you see? What do you experience? How would you describe a movement event? An experience of moving what you see and how this can deepen your understanding.
Identifying the parts of movement through the LBMS BESS Components (Body Effort Space and Shape) and how these parts relate to the whole
This introductory workshop will focus on: The foundational Duality of Self/Other – Body/Space Components and their relationship. We will also introduce how this Body/Space duality is linked to the Components of Shape and Effort through motivation, intent, interaction and context
Contact us for more details about this workshop: dmt@inspirees.com

Intro to the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (MD)
2020-04-18 15:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Intro to The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for Somatic Therapists & Practitioners with Laura Cox & Karen Studd
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
Please check back for new date and location!
For those engaged in somatic practices – learn how the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) can enhance your own experience and support your practice.
LBMS is a comprehensive system used in understanding multiple aspects of human movement patterns. Using the LBMS framework, this workshop will focus on awareness of movement in the context of somatic practice, education and therapy. While all somatic practices value self-awareness as a key to living a rich and healthy life, a benefit of LBMS as a somatic practice lies in the consideration of the space through which we move in daily life as a vital aspect of how we interact, function and express ourselves in the world.
Workshop participants will gain an increased awareness of their own individual movement patterns and preferences through experience with basic Bartenieff Fundamentals sequences to reveal, repattern and enhance movement function and expression.
REGISTRATION:
Register by March 28th and pay ONLY $85
Register between March 29th and April 17th and pay $100
On-site Registration: $115

Online BF Classes with Karen Studd
2020-04-17 10:00 - 2020-05-01 11:00 (America/New_York)
Karen Studd, WholeMovement co-founder, is diving into the world of online sharing/teaching/moving through offering 3 short workshop classes. Three 1 -hour experiences will be offered to share her perspective and how she approaches aspects of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System.
These sessions are for free and will be offered to a select group of participants currently studying the LBMS material in international training programs.
The classes will include:
1) A WholeMovement approach to BFs traditional Heel Rocks, starting from the basics and clarifying the intent of this action. Next continuing to explore possible variations and linking the action to BF Connections, Rhythms and Principles as well as the Basic 6.
2) A WholeMovement approach to the phenomenon of Rotation: what it is, what it does, and why it matters. Exploring rotation through the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System as an: Anatomical Action, Basic Body Action, Bartenieff Fundamental Principle and Metaphor. If time allows linking rotation to Patterns of Body Organization and to Basic 6 and to BF Rhythms and Space Harmony
3) Using the Physio Ball to connect to the Theme of Mobility Stability and finding the support of the underlying Basic 6 and the support of Bartenieff Fundamental Principles to Shape and Spatial Intent
The classes will be done through the Zoom online meeting format.
These will take place on 3 Fridays: April 17, 24, and May 1st at 10am EST

Complex Movement in Small Spaces
2020-04-08 09:30 - 2020-04-29 11:00 (America/New_York)
Mentoring a WholeMovement Approach in applying the
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System to teaching movement through the practice of Bartenieff Fundamentals
Led by WholeMovement member Cat Maguire
This limited enrollment class is designed as a way to workshop the mentoring of two Certified Movement Analysts, Penny Chang and Katee Shen, who wish to eventually teach the LBMS material and to simultaneously provide a rich embodied movement experience (rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals) for participants. Enrollment will be kept to small numbers to ensure adequate engagement and feedback. If you are interested in this or future classes please email catmaguire83@gmail.com.
This class will meet through Zoom on Wednesdays, April 8, 15, 22, and 29, from 9:30 – 11:00 am.

Webinar: Transformation of Crisis in Coronavirus Pandemic – Chinese and Global Perspectives
2020-04-05 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
IACASE global connection webinar
Transformation of Crisis in Coronavirus Pandemic – Chinese and Global Perspectives
Presented by
International Association of Creative Arts Somatic Education (IACASE) & CAET open access journal
The recent outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease it is causing, COVID-19, is having a huge impact globally on human beings. Since China has gone through the initial stages and hopefully the height of this epidemic and has it seemingly under control at this stage, the virus continues to spread to other parts of the world, noticeably in Europe and the United States, causing a soaring death toll and consequently widespread anxiety and fear. This seminar, initiated by the International Association of Creative Arts Somatic Education (IACASE) and CAET open access journal, aims to connect and unite our colleagues worldwide to support each other in this special period. Some Chinese speakers will join their counterparts abroad in the panel discussion of this webinar to share their Chinese perspectives and personal experiences involving body, creative arts and Chinese traditional knowledge to go through this crisis and transformation. This is also the support in return by the Chinese community to the world for their support to China in the past months. We also want to stimulate the cross-cultural reflection and dialogue on the sustainable development of human beings in harmony with nature. This webinar, as a special session of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy – History, Applications and Frontiers CAET webinar series, is presented in Zoom (video) and will be a highly interactive session with between panelists and the audience with some embodiment exercises, improvisations and artwork presentation.
This event is associated with the CAET Coronavirus special issue to be published in July 2020.
Panelists

KONG Xiang-dong (China), pianist and art educator
PENG Yong-wen (China), PhD, Shanghai Theater Academy
Rosa Maria Govoni (Italy/Switzerland), Art Therapy Italiana
Helen Payne (UK), PhD, Professor, University of Hertfordshire，
Karen Studd (USA/Poland), Co-Founder, WholeMovement
Nayung Kim (South Korea), PhD, Seoul Women’s University
Maria Elena Garcia (Spain/Latin America), University of Barcelona
Warren Nebe (South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
Ulrich Sollmann (Germany), Ethics Committee, IACASE; Shanghai University of Political Science and Law

Moderators

Joan Wittig (USA): Professor, Pratt Institute; Vice President, IACASE
Tony Yu Zhou (China/Netherlands): PhD, Founder, Executive Editor, CAET open access journal

Movement session facilitator
Marcia Plevin (Italy/USA): Co-founder, Creative Movement (Garcia-Plevin Methods®)
Cost: free
Who may participate?
Due to the limitation of the Zoom group size (maximum 100 people) and assurance of optimal quality of the webinar, participation is based on invitation for educators, practitioners, therapists, artists, and psychologists related to creative arts and somatics (body-mind) field, and associated with IACASE. We may organize more sessions in the future depending on the need.
Date: April 5 (Sunday), 2020
Time: 8am New York, 2pm Amsterdam, 8pm Beijing
Platform: Zoom
Register online here. Seats to be confirmed upon approval. Maximum 100 seats.

Continuing Exploration with Karen Studd & Esther Geiger
2020-03-29 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Continuing Exploration of Bartenieff Fundamentals & the Body Component of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
Please check back for new dates and locations!

Do you still love rolling around on the floor? Join Karen and Esther for a continuing exploration of the BF/Body aspect of LBMS. Starting from the inner experience of our sensing self and our body, we’ll take the work up and out to connect with others and engage in the world.
This event is geared towards Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysts or those with extensive training in the work. One in a series of Continuing Explorations offered by WholeMovement faculty for those who have prior training/certification in LBMS.
REGISTRATION:
EARLY MOVER DISCOUNT EXTENDED! – Register by March 14th and pay only $50!
Register between March 8th & March 27th and pay $60
On-site registration: $70

LABAN / BARTENIEFF MOVEMENT SYSTEM
2019-12-27 09:30 - 2019-12-30 18:30 (America/New_York) | Rome, Italy, Italy
ROME- DECEMBER 2019, JULY 2020
WholeMovement presents a new LBMS training program (1st level)
Supported and promoted by Choronde Educational Project
Taught by Certified Movement Analysts Karen Studd, Laura Cox
and Lorella Rapisarda
For more information call:
Chiara Parisi +39 348 8987514
c.parisi@chorondeprogettoeducativo.it
COURSE DATES and CLASS MEETING TIMES
27-28-29-30 December 2019
28-29 March 2020
18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25 July 2020
Classes meet every day from 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM with 1 hour break for lunch time.
LOCATION
ROMA CHORONDE c/o YWCA Via Cesare Balbo 4 Metro Termini /Cavour

Movement Analysis for Performing and Creative Artists: an Introduction to the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS)
2019-10-12 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Dance Loft on 14, 4618 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20011
Learn the basics of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) and explore its applications to theatre, dance, visual arts and creative writing.
Taught by Cat Maguire with Esther Geiger
LBMS offers an understanding of human movement rooted in identifying major patterns and themes (the macro view), as well as delving into details of the components of movement (micro).
In this experiential movement workshop, we’ll:

Investigate big ideas that organize human movement, including Developmental Patterns, Duality Themes and Phrasing
Elaborate on the components of movement: Body, Shape, Space and Effort
Explore ways to apply these patterns and components to creative endeavors, including performing, writing, directing, choreography and visual art making.

No prior experience with LBMS is necessary. The workshop is appropriate for all curious arts makers and doers!
Workshop Fee:
$35 “Early Mover” discount – if you register before September 12!
$45 for those who register between September 12 and October 11
$50 day-of fee at the door (cash or check only)

Unpacking the Complexity of Movement - the Parts in Relation to the Whole; a Process of Analysis and Synthesis
2019-05-24 - 2019-05-26 | Vivace Tanzstudio, Nollendorfstr. 11-12, Berlin, 10777, Germany
Karen Studd will be teaching an Advanced Workshop, Unpacking the Complexity of Movement – the Parts in Relation to the Whole; a Process of Analysis and Synthesis at EUROLAB.
