[Adta] SAVE THE DATES! 2008 Celebrations

[Regina Miranda]

2008 GLOBAL LABAN CELEBRATION



THE LABAN/BARTENIEFF INSTITUTE OF MOVEMENT STUDIES – LIMS® (New York  
City), a leading institution for the study, development and  
application of Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff's groundbreaking  
movement concepts, and LABAN (London), a conservatoire of  
contemporary dance excellence and a college of higher education with  
dynamic Education, Community and Graduate Schools, as well as Dance  
Science, Scenography, and Music Departments, envisioned a series of  
events to celebrate in 2008 the development of the work and influence  
of Rudolf Laban in the 50 years since his death.

Celebrating both Laban & Bartenieff’s work and its 30th ANNIVERSARY,  
the Laban/Bartenieff Institute - LIMS (New York City) will present a  
yearlong, international series of events - LABAN IN ALL WALKS OF  
LIFE, which will celebrate the arts and highlight new and exciting  
applications of Laban & Bartenieff’s work in the 21st century. LIMS’  
festivities will happen in Rio de Janeiro/BR (April 2008), in  
Dartington/UK (July 2008), culminating in New York/US (November 2008).

The UK Celebrations, focusing on LABAN THEN AND NOW, were envisioned  
by Valerie Preston-Dunlop, well known for championing of Laban’s work  
in her books and as an internationally known lecturer and  
practitioner. They are the result of collaborations between LABAN,  
the Laban Art of Movement Guild and the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute  
of Movement Studies, together with Lynn Jordan at the Zion Arts  
Centre Manchester and Lara Lloyd of Dartingtonplus, at Dartington  
Hall, and the archivists Jane Fowler at LABAN and Angie at  
Dartington. The UK programs will happen in Manchester (June 2008),  
where Lisa Ullmann and Rudolf Laban opened The Art of Movement Studio  
(now LABAN); at Dartington Hall (July 2008), where Laban arrived as a  
refugee in 1938, and began the last 20 years of his extraordinary  
output, and in London (October, 2008), at LABAN.



2008 GLOBAL LABAN CELEBRATION PROGRAM



I. LIMS® 30th ANNIVERSARY/2008 GLOBAL LABAN CELEBRATION

1. APRIL 22ND – 27TH, 2008 - RIO DE JANEIRO/BRAZIL

LABAN: ARTS AND NEW TERRITORIES

LIMS’ Laban Celebration will begin in Rio, in association with Centro  
LABAN – Rio de Janeiro and the Choreographic Center of the City of  
Rio de Janeiro, commemorating the spread and importance of Laban &  
Bartenieff’s ideas in the development of Brazil’s contemporary dance  
and dance education, and investigating the relevance and the new  
territories of applications of their ideas in the 21st Century.

The international event will feature performances, workshops,  
lectures, book signings, exhibition, a dance residency, and  
international guest artists presenting exciting new territories of  
application of Laban’s work, beyond the Performing Arts.

LABAN: ARTS AND NEW TERRITORIES will be presented by Centro LABAN –  
Rio de Janeiro, at the Choreographic Center of the City of Rio de  
Janeiro, a project of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and has the  
collaboration of the Federal University of Rio, the Angel Vianna  
College, the University of Campinas, the UNI-RIO, the Federal  
University of Bahia, and the Caleidos Arte e Ensino.



2. JULY 4 - 6, 2008 – SCHUMACHER COLLEGE, DARTINGTON, UK

LIMS/SCHUMACHER 2008 SYMPOSIUM ON MOVEMENT AND ECOLOGY.

This gathering will explore the potential of Laban’s work in  
conjunction with issues of eco-psychology and sustainability, through  
conversation and movement. The event will include discussions of the  
ways in which movement can establish and preserve a sense of place,  
empower sustainable practices, and help us to balance technology and  
spirit, and embodied practices through Movement Choir and other  
experiences. The event will be located at Schumacher College, at  
Dartington – UK, and will immediately precede the Residential  
Celebrations at Dartington.



3. NOVEMBER 14th – 16th, 2008 - NEW YORK, US

LABAN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE

  LIMS celebrations will culminate in New York City. Preserving and  
celebrating the global spread of Laban & Bartenieff’s work in the  
Performing Arts and beyond, the event will commemorate LIMS’ 30th  
ANNIVERSARY honoring the founder of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute  
with the launching of a new DVD “BARTENIEFF Fundamentalssm: The  
integrated body” (working title). Lectures and workshops will feature  
new trends for LMA/BF applications, and international artists  
inspired by Laban and Bartenieff’s concepts will perform in the LIMS’  
annual event, MOSAIC. Also on the program, LIMS will recognize  
distinguished members of the Laban community for their services to  
the organization with the LIMS AWARD, and will honor Laban  
professionals in the arts, movement research, and education.



II. UK 2008 GLOBAL LABAN CELEBRATION



JUNE 23rd  -27th, 2008

A celebration in Manchester, where the Art of Movement Studio (now  
LABAN) began, will concentrate on the development of the concerns  
that were set up then by Laban: creative dance in the school system,  
the development of modern dance as a theatre art in Britain, movement  
analysis in work, behavior, and the movement arts. Transitions Dance  
Company and today’s Manchester schools will perform. The event will  
feature an exhibition of more that 60 years of the Manchester Dance  
Circle meeting every week, dancing and performing to schools under  
the guidance of Sylvia Bodmer and her devoted co-director Enid Platt.  
Amateur dance will be celebrated by a week of creative workshops for  
all with Sue Moulson, well known in the area for her stunning  
experiential work and her knowledge of Laban ideas. The event is a  
collaboration between LABAN, the Zion Arts Centre, just down the road  
from where Lisa Ullmann and Rudolf Laban opened The Art of Movement  
Studio, and the Manchester City Schools Dance Council.



July 6 - Friday 10th – DANCE RESIDENCIAL CELEBRATION

  The Residential Celebration will happen at Dartington, where Laban  
as a refugee arrived in 1938, and was given safe haven by Dorothy and  
Leonard Elmhirst. The event concentrates on the passion Laban and the  
Elmhirsts shared, namely the arts for all, and in this case creative  
dance for all, choreutics, organicism and sacred geometry, and the  
beginnings of Laban's industrial work in collaboration with Fred  
Lawrence, and development of Effort. Beginning each day, dance artist  
Regina Miranda, CEO of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute (NYC), will  
teach a Laban/Bartenieff based Dance Class; Choreographers Rosemary  
Lee and Michael Platt will work an experiential piece and share it;  
Anna Carlisle, President of the Laban Guild, will focus in her  
workshops in the organicism of choreutics in the body; and the  
working days will culminate with a contemplative choreutic session  
for all led by Valerie Preston-Dunlop and Anna Carlisle. This will be  
an opportunity to create and dance together led by people well versed  
in Laban’s ideas and taking them into the future.



October 24 -26, 2008: LABAN will host an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The International Conference will address the topic of “How are  
Laban's Ideas Relevant Today?”. Laban’s work has spread worldwide and  
has inspired and is applied in all manner of institutions and by all  
manner of individuals from therapists to choreographers, teachers to  
researchers, actors to behavior scientists, community leaders to  
documenters, and more. This event will give all of us working with  
Laban's ideas professionally in whatever field a chance to dialogue,  
present, debate, perform and address the question through practice  
and word.



SAVE THE DATES!

The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies - LIMS (New York  
City), the LABAN (London), and the Associated Institutions invite all  
to JOIN US, participating in the fabulous events of the 2008 GLOBAL  
LABAN CELEBRATIONS, commemorating the rich legacy we are proud to  
preserve, spread, and develop, and contributing to the future  
developments for the new century.

Detailed information will soon be available in the LABAN site at  
www.laban.org, and at LIMS site at www.limsonline.org and will also  
be shared through e-lists.  Please pass this information along to  
people, communities and online groups who would be interested.



Regina Miranda, CEO

Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies

520 Eighth Avenue - Ste.304
New York - NY10018
phone: 212 643 8888
email: rmiranda at limsonline.org
www.limsonline.org



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