Laban Guild International Online Forum 2023
SEARCHING FOR BALANCE
The Laban Movement Choir Project invites you to an IN PERSON ‘Dance in a Day’
Saturday 9th March 2024, 10.45 – 16.30
Studio 9
The Place
17, Duke’s Road, London WC1H 9PY
For further information contact Susi Thornton
FOUNDATION COURSE IN LABAN STUDIES
Running ONLINE next year (2024) on these dates:
Tuesdays (7.30 – 9.30pm)
April 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th,
May 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th,
June 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th,
Saturdays (9 – 1)
April 6th, May 18th, June 29th
For further information please contact Maggie Killingbeck
Certification Programme in Movement Analysis and Somatic Practice
2024-2026
LSSI’s Certificate programme is a post-graduate Somatic Practitioner and Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analyst training delivered through a developmental and phenomenological lens. All modules are approached within somatic methodologies and perspectives, and include hands-on training for practice as a Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator. This programme meets the high standards of practice as an approved training programme of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
For more information and application www.labaninternational.org info@labaninternational.org
Creative Sanctuary - Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond
DANCING IN UTOPIA
Video Recording of Day 2 – October 21st 2023
(177) Creative Sanctuary: Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and beyond. Day Two – YouTube
SRA Movement and Dance Division
The Movement and Dance Division of the Sport and Recreation Association working with a number of Universities have produced the following report:
Social Value of Movement and Dance
Social Value Launch Event Report by Maggie Killingbeck
Mental Health in Sport and Physical Activity Conference
Connection is central –people with lived experience of mental health need to be embedded throughout all attempts to support, individual contact and collaboration. Greater promotion of success is required. There is a need to work strategically with partners and to understand the barriers Ideally a multi-sector approach is required.
MADE IN SUFFOLK - Film directed by Mel Horwood
The Laban Guild was delighted to be one of the sponsors of this film.
“Between 1982 and 1993 Scilla Dyke founded and directed what would become a sea change in the UK arts world. This film is the story of Suffolk Dance / Dance East and one woman’s lasting impact on dance.”
2019 LABAN LECTURE Given by Dr Ann Hutchinson-Guest
Classes with Viv Bridson
From October 1st to December 10th, weekly in Studio 8 from 11:00 to 12:30, usually with live music. Payment up to £10 donated to a country in need – currently Ukraine and Afghanistan.
Class is taught by Viv Bridson assisted by Amy Mauvan and Noemi Laabaid
Contact: danceprojects@btinternet.com
www.dancetheatreprojects.net
Online and in person classes from Alexandra Baybutt
Zoom and in person classes with Jenny Frankel
Lunchtime Laban
Weekly movement and dance sessions, based on the work of Rudolf Laban, both in-person (Primrose Hill) and on Zoom. Suitable for beginners and advanced students.
Tuesdays 12.30-1.30pm. First session free. Then £5 per week on Zoom, £10 per week in person.
Contact jennyfrankel.laban@gmail.com
Zoom sessions with Anneliese Monika Koch
Expressive Dance and Improvisation with Elements of Modern Laban Practice
Online Mondays 6pm to 7:15pm (GMT)
„Behind the visible, behind outer events, lives a hidden force, almost lost, hidden deep within ourselves a forgotten landscape reveals itself and within it we find a dance poem” – Laban
You are warmly invited to join us for a virtual celebration of Life through the Art of Movement. We will dance, improvise and create, guided by the poetical expression of our internal truth, our hopes, visions and dreams.
Suitable for beginners and advanced students.
First session free. Then £5 per week on Zoom.
Contact: movementatelier@gmail.com
MAPPING SPACE: CHOREOGRAPHIC RESOURCES FOR DANCE EDUCATION
Five dancers illustrate ways in which virtual maps and clusters of dynamic colouring offer frameworks and tools for choreographic exploration, composition and development.
The material is based on the innovative work of Rudolf Laban, pioneer of Dance Theatre, Movement Analysis and Dance Notation.
DVD £16 per copy (incl. postage)
Contact: Anna Carlisle
Revised Warren Lamb Editions
Posture and Gesture: an Introduction to the Study of Physical Behaviour
A Framework for Understanding Movement: my Seven Creative Concepts
Beyond Dance: Laban’s Legacy of Movement Analysis
An Eye for Movement: Warren Lamb’s Career in Movement Analysis
Decision Making and Movement Analysis (DVD)
All available through Brechin Books, 6 Brechin Place, London SW6 4QA
Contact: books@brechinbooks.online
These are also available as e-books through Kindle Publishing and Smashwords.
Laban Collection at the Brotherton Library
The John Hodgson Collection has now been catalogued and is available at https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/168066
There is also a guide with descriptive text to accompany a selection of images and documents. The Laban Collection guide can be accessed at http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-rudolf-laban-collections
Warren Lamb Archive
The NRCD is hoping to obtain enough funding to make the Warren Lamb Archive available to the public, and to this end has provided a link for donations on the University of Surrey’s online store
Geraldine Stephenson Archive
Now completed and available to view at the NRCD, University of Surrey, Guildford.
The archive can be viewed online at calmarchivecat.surrey.ac.uk.
For research enquiries or visits contact archives@surrey.ac.uk
Global Water Dances
“We connect and support a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance.”
Visit www.laban-eurolab.org for more information.