LABAN AROUND THE WORLD 18 & 19 April
Laban Guild International presents
LABAN
AROUND THE
WORLD
18 – 19 April
Trinity Laban – London
A global gathering bringing together artists and
researchers from 20 countries to celebrate
movement on stage and beyond
Coordinators
Regina Miranda, Darren Royston, Ligia Tourinho
Workshops
Dr Kiki Selioni (Greece)
Action-Movement Sequences becoming Fight Scenes
(How Laban developed Aristotle’s theories in practice)
Pamela Ramsden with Angela Sims & Christina Lyne (UK)
Action Profile® Overview
(Based on the foundational work of Rudolf Laban and further developed by
Warren Lamb and Pamela Ramsden)
Linda Schirmer (Ireland)
Moving with Nature: Creative Dance through Laban
Principles
(Introduction to Laban principles, including Body, Space, Shape, and optionally Effort)
Sandra Sok (Croatia)
Flow to Reflect & Connect: with body, bones, breath,
mind and emotion
(Dance improvisational class)
Asst. Prof. Dr. Handan Ergiydiren
(Head of Contemporary Dance)- ARUCAD Arkın University of Creative Arts and Design
From Text to Movement: Creative Improvisation in
Performance
(Generating Group Movement, Voice, Text and Melody from written text)
Dr. Cecilia Fontanesi (Italy)
Thinking in Space: Laban Space Theory and the
Neuroscience of Spatial Cognition
(Integrating movement practice with cognitive science as contemporary interdisciplinary research)
Workshops (2)
Antja Kennedy (Germany)
Dance for Diversity – a contemporary Movement
Choir in Germany
(Facilitating a contemporary movement choir creation in Laban’s tradition)
Dr. Dionysios Tsaftaridis (Greece)
The DMS Method (Dark Moving Human Spaces) and the
Reclamation of Embodied Intelligence
(Exploring the self-imposed obstruction of sight as a transformative mechanism to heighten the senses)
Marylee Hardenbergh (USA)
How to Create Site-Specific Dance with Your Community
(Using guided movement explorations, individual and group exercises, and
compositional tasks to create site-specific movement choirs)
Dr. Helen Kindred (UK)
Somatic Sensations of Place – Bartenieff Fundamentals
through improvised movement, sound, and space.
(Somatic practice with images using Laban Movement Analysis)
Joan van der Mast (The Netherlands)
LMA as a dramaturgical and methodological tool for building
and teaching a contemporary dance technique class
(Understanding release technique with Laban Principles / Barternieff Fundamentals)
Sandra Adiarte (Germany)
Move Came First, Analysis Later – Bridging Laban’s
Legacy into the Future
(Perception and Decision Making with Laban Movement Analysis)
Workshops (3)
Marisa Martins Lambert & Laís Julie Brasil Breyton (Brazil)
Laban/Bartenieff and the art of moving backwards,
inwards and towards the ground
(dance improvisation using Laban dimensions and structural layers)
Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh (India/Germany)
The explicit and the implicit: spelling out bodily
knowing across global contexts
(Sensing and Shaping in the Indian performing arts tradition of Natya)
Constance Novis (UK)
Connecting the Efforts with the Emotions
(Dance Movement Therapy)
Xueting Luo (China/UK)
Choreology as Pedagogical Practice
(An Exploratory Workshop on Embodied Learning through Chinese Classical Dance)
Regina Miranda & Adriana Bonfatti (Brazil)
Body-Space Connections
(Relational experiences on stage and beyond)
Dr. Ligia Tourinho (Brazil)
Choreographic Games for Actors and Dancers
(sharing her experience in drama, opera, dance theatre)
Presentations
Jonah Carrel (USA)
Labanotation as a Source for Creative Contemporary
Choreographic Practices
(Illuminating new creative routes for dancers and choreographers for all levels of Labanotation literacy)
Andrea Maciel (Brazil)
Interview Threads Between Body and Space
(Inner-Outer connectivity developed by Bartenieff from Laban)
Cecilia Dorland (UK/France)
Enter Death Dancing: Danse Macabre from Medieval
Drama to Ausdrucktanz
(Historical exploration of a recurring dance motif)
Vicky Spanovangelis (Greece/UK)
Architecture in Motion
(In honour of Olu Taiwo : LGI Space Harmony Hub)
Raymundo Ruiz González (Mexico/USA)
Debating dance preservation from the lenses of archival
theory
(The creation of scores in the early period of the Dance Notation Bureau)
Melanie Clarke (UK)
Experiential Movement and the Symbol in Labanotation
(considering notation in the practical somatic context, offering different
understandings of attentional focus and physical embodiment)
Presentations (2)
Dr Rose Breuss (Austria)
“The man in Lunacy”, a dance solo by Andrei Jerschik
(1929)
(An arts-based, digitised inquiry through a Labanotation based score)
Jana Schmueck (Germany)
Choreographing Invitation
(A Choreological Approach to Audience-Centered Dance Making as a Transformative
and Democratizing Practice)
Lindsay Royan (UK)
Defence Scale & Efforts in Stage Combat and Psychology
(and a look at character types in Winnie the Pooh!)
Susanne Montag-Wärnå (Finland)
How I understood concepts of Resonance and Care as
milestones on my path in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies
(a performance lecture)
Dr. Alison Curtis-Jones (UK)
Dynamic Dichotomies: How can the body be a dynamic
archive?
(A choreological approach to restaging dance theatre, movement and performance)
Dr Kiki Selioni (Greece)
Zwov in Praxis
(Theoretical Foundations and Applied Outcomes in an Aristotelian – Laban
Movement Methodology)
Presentations (3)
Victor Siáñez Vaca (Mexico, USA)
Emotion in Experience
(Emotional movement psychology aligned with developments in neuroscience)
Joan van der Mast (The Netherlands)
Laban’s Legacy in Croatia
(Integrating Theory, Somatics, and Contemporary Dance Practice at the Academy of
Dramatic Art (ADU) in Zagreb)
Discover a creative approach to
movement with Language of Dance
Paola Piccato / Liliana Della Valle / Eve Knights (LODT, UK)
Workshop – Introduction to Language of Dance
A fun and creative introduction to discovering the Language of Dance approach
Paola Piccato & Liliana Della Valle (LODT, UK)
Lecture Demonstrations
Concept of PAR & Dynamics / 8 Forms of Relating
Short Documentary about Dr Ann Hutchinson Guest MBЕ
World renowned as the expert in dance notation, researcher, movement specialist and
educator, co-founder of the DNB, author of the Labanotation & Your Move textbooks
& founder of the Language of Dance Trust and world LOD centres.
Film Screenings
Ava Bounds (UK)
from directors including
The Witches of Pool Bottom (2025)
(When a teenage girl’s body-image fears become physical, she decides to destroy
them – quite literally)
Vania Ibarguen (USA)
Global Water Dances, the Documentary (2025)
Olga Masleinnikova (Ukraine/Belgium)
GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE WITCH
Peter Culshaw (UK)
SAMA 2025 : in search of Sufism and the Whirling
Dervishes of Rumi and Rudolf Laban
(World Music journalist gives an ethnographic survey of musical tradition legacies)
The Whirling Dervishes
Performances
communal events created by
Dr. Denise Telles Hofstra (Brazil)
ARTE MODERNA.22- VILLA-LOBOS & TARSILA DO AMARAL
POETICS: a Laban-based contemporary opera-dance
Cecilia Dorland (Scena Mundi)
The Danse Macabre of John Lydgate (1420, Paris)
Choose a Character to Die for!
Dr. Naz Yeni (UK/Northern Cyprus/Hong Kong)
Re-Shape-Land-Scape: practice research on a hybrid
movement choir in the digital age
Plus Movement Choir of The Elements
Performance and DJ Dance Party
This event is part of
THE ART OF MOVEMENT
Laban’s Legacy in Dance-Music-Drama
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