Laban Movement Workshop

Over my spring I attend a workshop that is helping to full fill a graduation requirement that I am missing. The workshop was held in Manhattan at the Laban Institute and it was an Intro to Laban Movement Analysis. As a dance educator this is important material that will aide in my teaching. Laban is a technique used to analyze how and why the body moves and it helps you understand how your own body moves. Learning more about how my body moves and what boundaries can be pushed I am better suited to helping my students learn about their bodies. Laban also deals with principles of movement structure and purpose. There is so much to learn about this technique but in the workshop which is geared toward dancers and non-dancers we focused on the most important and valuable concepts. In Laban there is also motif writing which is series of symbols used to write movement. Laban also looks at movement from a mathematical view point which I found really difficult because that isn't my strongest area. It is also important to know that Laban isn't only used in dance but it is also used in acting, exercise, public speaking, and therapy. This school offers programs where you can become a certified movement analyst (CMA) which helps people develop their communication skills through movement. There are so many components to Laban and I don't have a great deal of knowledge about all of them but I am posting a link to the school's website so you can check it out for yourself. I'm also leaving you with some pictures of the material I studied at my workshop. Enjoy!


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