This section highlights CMAs who are doing something special in a particular month, or who received an achievement award related to the Laban field. The section will eventually include more than one CMA since our community is so active that it is really difficult to restrict the space to just one name.
This month we honor a great leader of the CMA community in the field of Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Movement for Actors.
LIMS congratulates KATYA BLOOM for publishing this summer The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis, by Karnac Books: www.karnacbooks.com or email usa@karnacbooks.com.
In it, Katya interweaves the disciplines of movement analysis and contemporary psychoanalysis, as they are applied to observational studies of infants and young children, and to her practice as a movement psychotherapist.
The Embodied Self aims to provide a practical and experiential working model for developing therapists’ “embodied attentiveness” which will enhance their recognition of the sensori-affective manifestations of transference and counter-transference.
LIMS president Virginia Reed wrote the following endorsement for the back cover :
"The Embodied Self" is a remarkable work written with the sensitivity and kinesthetic intelligence only such a brilliant movement artist as Katya Bloom could bring to it. It speaks with equal relevance to both the informed lay person and the advanced scholar. Bloom has achieved a three dimensional work that includes inviting conscious shifts into the reader's bodily experience while reading. In describing her patient-therapist interactions with such artistry, Bloom enables us to live the experience and achieve embodied knowledge. Most importantly, Bloom provokes, incites and leaves one with many questions. I experienced many paragraphs as open invitations for intense discussion. This book informs and inspires. It is an invaluable resource for dance movement therapists, movement analysts and students of both. Readers will be truly moved!
Katya came to study at LIMS in 1980, having met Irmgard Bartenieff in Santa Barbara, CA. – Irmgard’s stopping off point on her annual visit to Hawaii, and Katya’s home during the late 1970’s. There she choreographed, performed and taught improvisation. Irmgard encouraged her to come to study at LIMS, which she duly did. Katya feels privileged to have been in the last year group Irmgard taught before she died. What Katya learned at LIMS continues to inform both directions of her professional life – She is a movement psychotherapist working with adults and children; and she also teaches movement to actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
In the field of actor training, Katya has worked at RADA since 1989, where she has been able to develop her application of Laban’s ideas. Together with her students, she explores the use of movement as a vehicle for discovering not only the physical life, but also the psychological and emotional states of characters, their motivations and actions. Katya and her students continue to discover news ways in which the complexity of relationships, both within and between people, can be in-formed by movement.
In addition to LMA, the study of Amerta Movement, a non-stylized movement practice originating with Indonesian movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo, has underpinned Katya’s work in both the spheres of therapy and theatre; and she is a qualified teacher of Suryodarmo’s work. Katya has published several articles and book chapters, as well as a previous book, Moves: a sourcebook of ideas for body awareness and creative movement, co-written with Rosa Shreeves (Routledge,1998).
Contact: kbloom@talk21.com
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Previous 2005/06 CMAs of the Month
is a professor of dance in the Department of Music and Dance and an associate of the Gerontology Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She also is the Director of Senior Wellness and Exercise for the Center for Movement Education and Research in Los Angeles and a Senior Research Associate for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Janet received her master's degree in dance from Mills College and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City. She is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.
Janet received the Laban/Bartenieff Institute's first Laban Award for Creative Achievement by an artist or researcher in 2004. In 2005, the University of Kansas awarded her a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and the Lawrence Arts Commission presented her with its Phoenix Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement.
Her research has focused on coordination problems in children and adults, movement efficiency for athletes, movement problems of older adults, and movement therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease. Her research on Parkinson's disease resulted in an award-winning exercise DVD/video, Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson's, which is distributed by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation in New York City and recommended by the major national and regional Parkinson's foundations. Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson’s received the University Continuing Education Association’s 2005 Outstanding Noncredit Program Award, the top national award of this Washington, D.C.-based organization. Janet is the founder and manager of Motivating Moves, LLC. For more information about Motivating Moves® visit http://www.motivatingmoves.com.
Janet has presented Laban/Bartenieff-based research at medical centers and at national and international conferences. Her work has been published in refereed journals. Her entry on Bartenieff Fundamentals appears in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines. She was the consultant for Moving and Motivating with Laban Movement Analysis in the popular press book Mind-Body Fitness for Dummies, and her Bartenieff Fundamentals-based pre-warm-ups for aerobic and resistance workouts were featured in Shape magazine. NBC national television and the U.S. Information Agency's international program Science World featured her work with athletes.
She has taught in the Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and
has been a guest teacher at the Juilliard School of Music, the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and the Sports Training Institute, all in New York City. Janet was a core faculty member of the New Mexico Laban Certification Program and a guest faculty member for the Laban Certification Program in Berlin, Germany. She also has taught LMA classes in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, as well as throughout the United States. |
MA, CMA is a dance educator and advocate for the arts. She is the founding director of Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) 92nd Street Y. DEL is based on her 25 years of experience teaching in the New York City schools and her interest in promoting an effective methodology for developing dance educators. Jody is co-chair of the Dance Curriculum Blueprint Committee, formed to create the New York City Department of Education Curriculum Blueprint for Teaching & Learning in Dance Pre K-12.
Jody received a BA in English (University of Wisconsin), an MA in Dance Education (Columbia University) and is a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University in Dance and Curriculum and Teaching. She is a Certified Movement Analyst (C.M.A.—Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies - LIMS NYC).
Jody is chairman of the board of Ballet Hispanico, and serves on the boards of the 92nd Street Y and the Center for Arts Education in New York City. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute, and is an active member of LIMS Arts & Culture Committee.
“ I would like to encourage CMAs to consider a career in Dance Education. I would be happy to talk to anyone interested in this exciting and rewarding career that offers a lifetime of learning.”,
says Jody, who has been receiving deserved acclamation for this wonderful service to the art of dance and to the Laban community. |
is the founder and director of the Center for Movement Education and Research (CMER) a non-profit corporation dedicated to movement education that integrates academic theories of mind-body integration with movement and dance practice for all people . Judy has been working in the field of dance and movement education for over twenty-five years. She is an Associate Adjunct Professor at UCLA in the department of World Arts and Cultures (1982 to present) where she has taught and developed curriculum in movement education. She received the UCLA Jane Permaul Faculty Incentive Award (2000) for Service Learning to support development of a new dance education curriculum. Alongside a strong academic career Judy has taught in numerous certification programs for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York and Co-Directed the Los Angeles certification program with Peter Madden.
Her perspective of the role of movement in healing and education is extensive. She was the former Fitness Editor for Shape magazine and Co-Editor of Kinesiology for Dance, an international publication. Her latest writings on Dance Kinesiology were published by Oxford Press in the International Encyclopedia of Dance released in the spring of 1998. Her writings on fitness were requested for the first textbook published by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of American- Fitness: theory & practice.
Judy maintains a private practice as a movement specialist, working with such clients as Jody Foster, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Walters, Ed Asner, and others. She is active in Associate Producing and choreographing health and exercise videos and guest lecturing on movement studies nationally. Internationally, she has taught in England at the University of Surrey, in Bombay and Madras India, and in Scotland at the Common Wealth International Conference on Sports Medicine, Dance, Physical Education and Health.
While at UCLA Judy became a mentor to the UCLA Artsbridge Scholars. The mission of Artsbridge was to help redress the scarcity of arts education by providing hands-on instruction in the public schools. Focusing on how dance pedagogy can blend critical, social, health and cultural concerns lead to the creation of The Center for Movement Education and Research. |
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Katya Bloom PhD, CMA, SrDMT
Janet Hamburg MA, CMA, RSMT
Jody Gottfried Arnhold
Judy Gantz, M.A., CMA