I am dedicated to a somatic approach towards the practice, research, and development of the expressive body in motion. Laban Movement Analysis not only assists me in enriching my work as both a contemporary choreographer and dance educator, but it allows me to articulate, shape, and synthesize that which I both experience and observe in the moving world around me. LMA has broadened my scope and has taught me how to move beyond the habitual in order to “find the new”.

Donna Redlick
CMA, DTTD, BA
Contact
http://www.donnaredlick.com

About Donna’s work: visit http://www.donnaredlick.com

Courses: visit http://www.donnaredlick.com

Biography
Donna Redlick is a professional dance artist, dance educator, and Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) living and working in the Vancouver area. She is a graduate from the first Toronto LIMS®-endorsed CMA program, hosted by York University, under the direction of Janet Kaylo. Donna also holds a Diploma in Dance Teacher Training from Grant MacEwan College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Saskatchewan.

Donna has 20 years of teaching experience. This includes 15 years at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (SCA), where she was Artistic Advisor for the dance program and Artistic Director of both Continuum Dance Company and Youth In Motion Dance Company. She has also taught for MainDance, as a sessional instructor for Simon Fraser University, as an artist in residence for the Vancouver School Board, and as a guest for the Burnaby School Board.

Currently Donna freelances in the Vancouver area. She is core faculty for the upcoming Laban/ Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada™, Vancouver Program and runs pre-requisite courses for the program. She works as a Movement Specialist in her private studio, coaching and assisting dancers to find full body integration and personal movement expression.

Donna’s choreography has been presented at numerous festivals and performances in the Vancouver area. Her most recent piece, “sometimes it never leaves your skin” was selected to be presented in London, England for “Open Space”, produced by the International Workshop Festival.

Movement plays a vital role in health, learning and healing for all ages.

Movement and sensory stimulation are what grow the brain and body.

Movement is what enables human beings to communicate, to learn, to express emotion, and to recuperate from stress.

Anna Kemble
MA, RCC, ADTR, CLMA
Contact
http://www.annakemble.com

Anna Kemble is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Dance-Movement Therapist working in Greater Vancouver and the North Shore, committed to helping children, teens and adults of all abilities heal and develop to their fullest potential.

I am on a continual journey of exploration of the workings of the human body. This journey has led me to GYROTONIC® methodology and GYROKINESIS® methodology. I hope to bring to my clients an appreciation of the potential of their lives through the medium of movement.

Philip Seth
BA, CMA
Contact
http://www.circule8.ca

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Philip Seth has a BA in Painting and Drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a Certified Movement Analyst in the Laban system of movement observation and description. He has a background in dance having performed in Modern and Classical works from 1980-1994. From 1984-1994 he was on the part-time faculty of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. He is most proud of his involvement with the choreography for the Handing Over Ceremony to mark the change of Administration of Hong Kong from British to Chinese authorities in 1997. He has lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1994.

In addition to being a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Level 1 Certified trainer since 2003 , Philip has also completed the GYROTONIC® for Golf Specialized course in 2006. In that same year Philip became a registered BCRPA Flow yoga instructor as well as a Yoga for Seniors instructor.

Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada (LSSC), under the direction of Janet Kaylo MA, CMA, RSMT, SrDMT, MPA, presents Certificate Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in Vancouver, BC.

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About LSSC

Under the umbrella of Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International (LSSI), LSSC presents Modular Certificate Programs in Laban Movement Analysis and BodyMind Practice(TM) in Vancouver and Toronto. Completion of the full program includes the Certification in Laban Studies (CMA) award conferred in affiliation with LIMS®. Our first Vancouver program begins with Module One, in December, 2008. The LIMS® conferred CMA and the Certificate in Movement Analysis and BodyMind Practice are awarded with successful completion of all five Modules.

As the umbrella organisation for Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada, LSSI is committed to providing in-depth, experiential movement study programs within the framework of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (LMA) and its application as a somatic, bodymind practice. Modular Certificate programs are designed to refine participants’ abilities to understand and explore movement as the basis of lived experience-in life as well as in art.

The LSSC Vancouver Modular Program

The Vancouver Certificate program takes place within a vibrant and long-standing professional LMA community. Guest and other faculty will be comprised primarily of members of the Vancouver area Laban/Bartenieff community.

The Modular Program includes five, two-week intensive session blocks, in December, June, and August months. Modules One through Three can be taken as self-contained units, while Modules Four and Five require completion of all previous modules.

All Modules require pre-requisites of Introduction to Anatomy/Kinesiology, or Experiential Anatomy; Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis, and Introduction to Bartenieff Fundamentals (BF). Pre-requisite, introductory courses are offered regularly in British Columbia, and other parts of Canada. For dates and locations, see Introductory Programs at www.labancan.org.

While Modules are structured thematically as categories of Body, Effort, Shape, Space (BESS) and a Final Application Project, all the modules include integration into the full framework of LMA. The title of the Module represents the area through which we enter LMA/BF, and where our in-depth explorations are focused. Each category of BESS reveals a picture of the whole of our LMA/BF system, and experientially draws out the interconnections between each of the categories.

For Module and full Program information see www.labaninternational.org; www.labancan.org; or contact info@labancan.org.

Janet Kaylo
MA Jungian and Post Jungian Studies
CMA, RSMT, SrDMT, MPA
Founder/Director LSSI, LSSC

In the last 32 years, Janet has performed with many dance companies, choreographed, directed, trained dancers and dance movement therapists, designed educational training programs, and presented workshops and master classes throughout Great Britain, Europe, the US, Canada, and in India. In 2003/4 Janet designed and directed the first Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS®) Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) intensive at York University, Toronto. The Founder/Director of Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International/Canada (LSSI/LSSC), Janet is also a registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA), a Senior Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist (ADMT, UK), and a Movement Pattern Analysis Practitioner.

Holly Bright
BA, BSc, CMA
Contact

Holly Bright performs, choreographs, teaches, adjudicates contemporary dance festivals and facilitates movement with varied populations. She has guest taught at Cornish University Seattle, University of Akron, Ohio and The University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, and at various dance academies in Nanaimo, B.C, where she currently resides. She has worked with many choreographers and companies including; Senta Driver, Hanya Holm, Agnes de Mille, Nina Weiner, Maureen Fleming-Odo, Lynne Taylor Corbett in New York City , Helen Myers, New Mexico and Margie Gillis, Chick Snipper, Kokoro Dance, Judith Marcuse (film), Lee Eisler, Deborah Dunn, Judith Garay, Jennifer Mascall and Cheryl Prophet in Vancouver.

Her Musical Theatre choreographic background has been with experimental or original works; Euphemia (Akron, Ohio), The Spirit of Bleeker Street (NYC), A Good Person? (Malaspina University Theatre). She choreographed Hot Flashes with Theatre One (Nanaimo) and Heidi with Chemainus Theatre (Chemainus). She has performed as a “hot box dancer” in Guys and Dolls (Ohio) and thoroughly enjoyed creating the leading role in an original play, The Swing of Things (NYC).

Holly holds a BA in Dance and a BSc in Human Physiology, and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst. Holly is the Artistic and General Director for The Crimson Coast Dance Society in Nanaimo, BC. She curates their series, DANCE ON THE CRIMSON COAST, which presents professional dance performances and workshops throughout the year.

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As a practicing dance artist and teacher who works in a myriad of contexts and populations, Rudolf Laban’s language for movement  feeds my soul and mind and infuses all my processes.

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Helen Walkley
MFA, CMA, RSME
Contact

Courses and workshops

Information on Helen’s current teaching schedule can be found at:

www.cadadance.org

www.dancemovesvancouver.com

www.thedancecentre.ca

Helen is an artist in residence at the Scotiabank Dance Centre for the 2008-2009 season.

Biography

Helen Walkley is an independent performer, choreographer, improviser and teacher based in Vancouver, BC. She has also lived and worked extensively in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. Her work has been funded by the Canada Council, BC Cultural Services, the Canadian Embassy in Bonn and the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions. She has performed at the New York Improvisation Festival and Dance Theater Workshop/NY, the American Dance Festival, On the Boards/Seattle, Danceworks/Toronto, the Edge Festival/Vancouver, Tangente/Monteal Danslab/Amsterdam and the Tanzfabrik/Berlin. She is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst and registered Somatic Movement Educator and has a M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University. She has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of Calgary, Virginia CommonWealth University and the Laban Institute for Movement Studies/NY. She was on faculty at the School for New Dance Development in the Amsterdam from 1991 – 94. In 2002/03 she was an Artist in Residence at the Dance Centre in Vancouver and 03/04 she was an Artist in Residence at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby.

Laban Movement Analysis forms a conduit between expressive movement impulses and creating animated movement for the screen that lives, breathes and communicates.

Leslie Bishko
MA, CMA
Contact
http://www.labanforanimators.com

About Leslie’s work

Leslie’s work with Laban Movement Analysis encompasses three main areas:

• Laban for Animators: the aesthetic foundation of nonverbal communication in the art form of animation, including aesthetic guidelines for creating believable, expressive animated characters, and style analysis of animated movement.
• Visualization of LMA theories through the creation of 3D computer animated imagery. Pedagogically, these theories are demonstrated and experienced through dance-movement and the use of movement notation symbols. Visualization of movement theory contributes a new visual perception of LMA concepts and new pedagogical methods.
• Creation of experimental animated film, using traditional and digital media, centering on the use of LMA as a creative tool for the aesthetic exploration of movement dynamics, rhythmic phrasing and pattern.

Courses and consulting work

Leslie incorporates LMA into her 3D Character Animation and related courses in the full time Animation BFA degree program at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Course assignments are based on LMA principles, and feedback to students is given through the lens of LMA-based observation and description. Leslie has given Laban for Animators workshops at a variety of computer game studios, which provide a broad overview of the LMA system, emphasizing how it can be applied to animation through designing a Movement Signature for animated characters, and through coaching motion-capture talent to achieve specific movement qualities.

Recent publications

Leslie is currently developing a book proposal for Laban for Animators. The following recent publications represent the scope of her current work:

• Bishko, L., “The Use and Abuse of Cartoon Style in Animation,” reprinted in The Animation Industry (working title), Icfai Press, 2008
• Bishko, L., “Developing Personality,” contributed to Furniss, Maureen, The Animation Bible, Abrams, 2008, pp. 60-63
• Bishko, L., “The Use and Abuse of Cartoon Style in Animation,” Animation Studies Journal: http://journal.animationstudies.org
• Bishko, L., “Visualizing the A Scale: a visual supplement to teaching Choreutics,” Proceedings of the 24^th Biennial Conference of the International Council of Kinetography Laban, London, UK.

Biography

Leslie Bishko is an Associate Professor in Animation at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, where she teaches 3D computer graphics specializing in character animation, and is a member of the Movement Research Group. An experimental animation filmmaker, her computer animated film, Gasping for Air (1993), won 6 awards at major international festivals. Bishko’s history with dance includes dance notation and certification as a Laban Movement Analyst (LMA). Bishko has developed Laban for Animators, which she teaches to computer game companies and animation schools, and is currently expanding into a book. She has collaborated with choreographer Holly Bright on integrating dance with animation onstage. Her research investigates movement styles in animation, and the use of animated imagery for LMA studies.

As a dance educator, LMA is a constant source of inspiration. It provides me with additional approaches and methodologies for dance/movement training and its underlying philosophy resonates with my own beliefs about educating the whole person and acknowledging the creative and expressive potential within each individual.

Cheryl Prophet
BFA York University
CMA

Contact

Cheryl is a dance educator, choreographer and Certified Movement Analyst. She has been involved in the professional dance community in Canada for thirty-four years as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. Formerly from Montreal, she performed and toured nationally and internationally with Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Fortier Danse Creation and Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, and throughout the ‘80s was active in the Montreal dance scene as a dancer and choreographer. Since relocating to Vancouver in 1989, she has been on the dance faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and is a practicing choreographer. Her choreography has been presented locally, nationally and internationally.

As a Senior Lecturer at the School, she is primarily involved in educating and training dance students in performance and creative-based courses. She teaches all levels of contemporary dance technique, body conditioning for dancers, dance improvisation, choreography and dance/movement analysis. Traditional modern dance techniques, Pilates, Yoga, dance science and somatic approaches to movement training inform her teaching.

She is a regular assessor for the Canada Council for the Arts and serves as a board member for Mascall Dance and Dancers Dancing Dance Company.