[Adta] 2008 Global Laban Celebration!

Fri Aug 24 15:50:22 EDT 2007

Dear Colleagues,
  The 2008 Global Laban Celebration is just around the corner! Please save the dates for the exciting events posted below.
  Thank you,
  Alyson Nehren
  Alyson Nehren MA, DTR, CMA, RSMT/E
Managing and Educational Programs Director 
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies 
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 304
New York, NY 10018 
USA 
Phone: 212-643-8888 
Fax: 212-643-8388 
LIMSNYC at aol.com 
www.limsonline.org

  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 (NYC)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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