Immersion Workshop

January 2-5, 2025

9-4:30
University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

$575 if registered by October 31
$650 after October 31

The Immersion workshop is an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. Participants can expect to enhance kinesthetic awareness, develop movement connectivity, hone observation and coaching skills, and come away with articulate movement language in this week-long workshop.

The course physically and theoretically examines all major components of the Laban/Bartenieff System. In conjunction with a supportive community this workshop explores the somatic system of Irmgard Bartenieff and her Basic Six Exercises, Integrated Movement Studies’ Patterns of Total Body of Connectivity, and Laban’s theories of Effort, Shape and Space Harmony.

Please note, our online payment methods have not be finalized yet. To register for the Immersion Workshop, please fill out and submit the registration form by clicking “register” above. On the form, select if you would like to pay in full ($575) or only the place-holding deposit ($100). After you submit the registration form, IMS will contact you to finalize payment.


Immersion Workshop

January 12 - 15, 2025

Nashville, Tennessee

Centennial Performing Arts Studio

in partnership with Metro Parks Dance Division

Sunday 12-6pm

Monday-Wednesday 10am-3pm

$550 if registered by November 10
$600 after November 10

This immersion workshop is an opportunity to dive into Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies.  Participants can expect to enhance kinesthetic awareness, develop movement connectivity, hone observation and coaching skills, and come away with articulate movement language in this 4 day workshop.

The course physically and theoretically examines all major components of the Laban/Bartenieff System:  Irmgard Bartenieff's somatic system and Basic Six Exercises, Integrated Movement Studies' Patterns of Total Body Connectivity, and Laban's theories of Effort, Shape, and Space Harmony.  As a community of people invested in the value of human movement, we will hold the question:  what can I know from my moving body?  

Please note, our online payment methods have not be finalized yet. To register for the Immersion Workshop, please fill out and submit the registration form by clicking “register” above. On the form, select if you would like to pay in full ($550) or only the place-holding deposit ($100). After you submit the registration form, IMS will contact you to finalize payment.