2024
May 2024 Irmgard Reflecting on Laban’s Teaching
April 2024 Laban’s Stillness and Stir – poetic musings
March 2024 A Personal Account of Laban’s Space Harmony Scales
February 2024 Joy in Movement through Function and Expression
January 2024 What are we doing with L/BMS in Irmgard Bartenieff’s words
2023
December 2023 Moving Offerings from Alums
November 2023 What does being Embodied mean?
October 2023 Reinvesting in our podcast – Embodied People
September 2023 An Interview with Mihyun Lee on Embodied Practices for Adoptees
August 2023 An Interview with Madegan Lynch on applying L/BMS to Ballet Dancers
July 2023 An Interview with Hana Kemea Kemble the director of Moving Child Films
June 2023 20 New CLMAs in Korea
May 2023 Turning Over the Soil – Completions and Beginnings
April 2023 Finding Support in Movement to Begin
March 2023 Students reflect on Peggy’s Teaching and Legacy
February 2023 Excerpts of an Interview with Peggy Hackney
January 2023 Bodily Knowing and the Change Process
2022
December 2022 Your Movement Practices Shape Your Sense of Your Body and Self
November 2022 Announcements: New Program Location and Timeline
October 2022 Right and Timely Embodied Knowing
September 2022
Space: Your Alive, Dynamic Partner
August 2022
Congratulations New CLMAs!
July 2022
New Movement Skills and The Buddy Gifting Project
June 2022 The Arm Circle: 3-D Rotary Function
May 2022 Revisiting Irmgard Bartenieff’s Diagonal Knee Reach
April 2022 The Basic Body Half for Spinal Stability and Mobility
March 2022 Poetry in Memory of Cadence Joy Whittier
February 2022 Get Moving with the Lateral Pelvic Shift
January 2022 A Community of Memories: Honoring IMS co-director Cadence Joy Whittier
2021
December 2021 Propulsion into Space with Sagittal Pelvic Shift
November 2021 In Memory of Cadence Joy Whittier
October 2021 Moving from the Lowest Part of the Pelvis: Femoral Joint Flexion and Extension
September 2021 The Basic Six: What is the Point?
July 2021 What is Effort and Why Study It?
June 2021 Alum Spotlight: Lindsey Hanahan
May 2021 Sense Your Inner Volume
April 2021 Overview: What Does it Mean to Perceive Movement Through Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies?
March 2021 Let’s Talk About Sensation
February 2021 Function and Expression: Moving the Fullness of our Humanity
January 2021 Intention, Phrasing, and the Change Process
2020
December 2020 How to Build Your Own Icosahedron
November 2020 Strategies for Sanctuary: Taking Refuge in Your Moving Body
October 2020 The Change Process 3: Resilience in Our Goal
September 2020 The Change Process 2: Some Possible Steps
August 2020 The Change Process 1: The Roots and Possibilities
July 2020 Introducing the Change Process
June 2020 Melissa Mirza on Phrasing and Organizing Intentions
May 2020 What is Motif? A Simple Mobilizing Score
April 2020 Resources for Connecting to Our Humanity
March 2020 The Importance of Touch to the Development of Subtle Movement Possibilities
February 2020 Congratulations New CLMAs
January 2020 Initiating with the End in Body: Phrasing into the New Year
2019
December 2019 Movement, The Stress Cycle, and You
November 2019Return to the Movement
October 2019
Seeking Sensation as the Foundation of the Change Process
September 2019 Creative Systems Theory as a Pedagogical Framework
August 2019 On the Development of Inter-Observer Reliability
July 2019 Building the Community Container in Adult Movement Education
June 2019 What is Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and Why Use It?
May 2019 The Expressive Life of Shape Forms
April 2019 Initiation: A Metaphor for Life and Tangible in Movement
March 2019 Pause and Stillness
February 2019 Experience as Teacher: Connecting to the Visceral and Bringing it to the Surface
January 2019 Movement: A form of processing, thinking, and knowing
2018
December 2018 Using Movement to Reflect on 2018
November 2018 Check It Out: Two New Texts by our Faculty
October 2018 Making Meaning from Movement: An L/BMS Perspective
September 2018 Phrases: Bridging from Movement to Patterns in your Life
August 2018 What is Phrasing? Looking at What We Know about Movement Phrases
July 2018 The BESS Baseline: Breath, Flow, Shape Flow Support, and Inner Volume
June 2018 Types of Touch: A Quick Touch in with Your Body
May 2018 Who is IMS? Video
April 2018 Quick Gems from Irmgard Bartenieff
March 2018 Who is IMS Introduction
February 2018 Welcome New CLMA’s: Meet the Cohort
January 2018 Photo Gallery of the 2017-2018 Certification Program
2017
December 2017 Connecting to Physicality to Know the Self
November 2017 Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp on L/BMS in Her Work
October 2017 The Observation Process: More Information
September 2017 Moving Through the Observation Process
August 2017 Beyond the Technical Language: A Case for the Evocative and Imagistic in L/BMS
July 2017 Irmgard Bartenieff’s Lost Gems
June 2017 What is an IMS Immersion?
May 2017 Zones of the Kinesphere
April 2017 Motif: We are a go!
March 2017 Cross-Lateral Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
February 2017 Body-Half Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
January 2017 Upper-Lower Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
2016
December 2016 Head-Tail Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
November 2016 Core-Distal Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
October 2016 Breath Pattern of Total Body Connectivity
September 2016 Introducing the Patterns of Total Body Connectivity
August 2016 Introducing Weight Effort
July 2016 Kinesphere: Explore the Space Around You