Tag Archives: Laban/Bartenieff Movement System

Using LBMS for creative pedagogy

Using the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for creative pedagogy I use LBMS in many different ways. This post is about how it supports my work as an educator and facilitator. The example I share here is a workshop that took place in December 2023 in Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia. This workshop was not about teachingContinue reading “Using LBMS for creative pedagogy”

CVs are not linear

I made a venn diagram that better reflects my work and commitments: Like many people who ‘come from dance’, there are many interconnected, overlapping jobs. Sure, it’s normal and expected to edit a CV to tell a particular story. But to claim working life in dance (broadly conceived) looks different to a venn diagram ofContinue reading “CVs are not linear”

On Transversality: Ullmann, infrastructures, ethics

Alexandra Baybutt  (Presented 12 April 2023, as a talk in the frame of the WAEF three-day summit on the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. I was part of a day focussed on ‘the ‘silent’ bodies of knowledge and overlooked contributors: the women and men who developed and ensured the legacy of ‘Laban’ studies’) Abstract This presentation discussesContinue reading “On Transversality: Ullmann, infrastructures, ethics”

What is movement coaching?

I help you identify, understand and re-pattern movement habits that are no longer serving you. What ever your goals are, together we develop more movement choice, functionality and expression. Check out these questions about working 1 to 1 with me and experiencing movement coaching. How is movement coaching faciliated? I verbally facilitate and guide youContinue reading “What is movement coaching?”

Patterns

Here is a beautiful picture by photographer and artist Mira Loew, taken in her old studio somewhere in Dalston in 2012 or there abouts, where there was a white cat somewhere out of shot. The patterns on the floor make the composition even more striking – my legs forming similar corners and edges inside shapes,Continue reading “Patterns”

Where to go when you fit in everywhere, or What’s all this about then?

Well, movement is everywhere, but I’m not everywhere. I don’t fit in in a boxing gym, through I’ve walked through one to teach yoga at the back. I don’t fit in in the park full of mothers and babies, though I’ll happily walk with my friend and her son who I taught when she wasContinue reading “Where to go when you fit in everywhere, or What’s all this about then?”

Exertion-recuperation, or How I think about endurance

Squirrel The squirrel pushes its lower legs into the ground, and extending its front legs out, springs in curved pathways across the ground to the tree. I – anthropomorphic – find it cartoon-like and funny. The squirrel could be stressed, though. This bounce could be for joy; it could be for efficiency. It could beContinue reading “Exertion-recuperation, or How I think about endurance”