Summer Workshop Series

The Department of Creative Arts Therapies presents intensive workshops during the summer season for theatre and dance/movement enthusiasts who want to expand their skill set and methods for creative expression. The 2016 Learn Laban Workshop Series will feature distinguished alumni of the Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis (GL-CMA) as they present innovative applications of Laban Movement Analysis. These workshops are appropriate for dancers, dance educators, dance/movement therapists, movement analysts, prospective students and any individuals interested in Laban.

  • Learn Laban: Research in Practice

    Saturday, September 24, 2016 

    10 a.m.–12 p.m. 

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    This immersive Laban/Bartenieff session delves into how GL-CMA practitioners Emma Draves and Andrea Cerniglia utilize body-based artistic and research practices to deepen connections within the classroom and professional creative settings. First, we will explore a floor-based movement phrase used as a warm up for the body and brain, as well as to identify Bartenieff fundamentals in a fun “Pin-the-tail-on-the-Fundie” exercise. Second, we'll navigate phrasing and how attention to initiation, exertion and recuperation can reveal information about movement preferences and kinesthetic character. Third, we'll engage in a conversation on using LMA taxonomy to examine cultural constructs.

    ADTA CEs available: The 2016 Learn Laban Workshops emphasize the content areas of movement observation and analysis, multiculturalism and research practices.

    Prospective students will have the opportunity to observe the GL-CMA the same day. Contact bbrownholtz@colum.edu for more details.

  • Learn Laban: The Reading of the Body

    Saturday, September 24, 2016

    1–3 p.m. 

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    This presentation represents a preliminary attempt to apply concepts of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) to Simone Ferro’s research on popular folk culture and African-Brazilian religious practices in Northeast Brazil. In these practices, which are based on clandestinely imported religious rituals of slaves, devotees perform extremely physical dances while singing, chanting and dancing for long hours in terreiros (houses of worship) to honor specific deities. In this interactive lecture, Ferro apply concepts from LMA to these highly complex corporeal materializations of spiritual entities using factors of space, time, weight and flow.

    ADTA CEs available: The 2016 Learn Laban Workshops emphasize the content areas of movement observation and analysis, multiculturalism and research practices.

    Prospective students will have the opportunity to observe the GL-CMA the same day. Contact bbrownholtz@colum.edu for more details.