An introduction to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) and its elemental framework of body, effort, shape, and space. Students will experience, observe, describe, coach, and make meaning of human movement through the specific lens of LBMS. Students will also critically examine how historical and cultural contexts inform movement observation and analysis.
Athena Title
Laban Bartenieff Movement St
Prerequisite
DANC 2652 and DANC 2662 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to identify and apply LBMS terminology to movement experience and observation.
At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to perform the Patterns of Total Body Connectivity in differentiated and integrated movement contexts.
At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to reflect on one’s personal movement signature and enact lesser-known aspects of the elemental framework of LBMS.
At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to synthesize knowledge of the LBMS framework with an area of personal and/or professional interest.
Topical Outline
The Elemental Framework of LBMS (Body, Effort, Shape, Space)
Organizing Themes of LBMS (inner <--> outer, part <--> whole, function <--> expression, simple <--> complex, stability <--> mobility, exertion <--> recuperation)
Patterns of Total Body Connectivity (Breath, Core-Distal, Head-Tail, Upper-Lower, Body-Half, Cross-Lateral)
Special Considerations in Movement Observation (Body Knowledge/Body Prejudice, troubling the frame)
