Assignments using LMA

Workshop: LMA and actor movement training

The workshop leaders will be Kedzie Penfield and Judith Steel. One of the outcomes of this teaching project is to offer our ideas, thoughts, and findings, in a practical workshop setting that can benefit theatre and movement practitioners in the field and in higher education. Details are on the link. Published by Movement[...]

Laban Movement Analysis and Movement for Actors

The collaborators on this project pose some basic questions that will be explored in depth as the project begins. 1. How does LABAN STUDIES Help the Actor? What can it add to the training? 2. What is (the potential or actual) INTERPLAY between the actor’s overall training and[...]

Week 10

Year 1 Day 1 Objective: The day is used for rehearsals for the movement assessment: ‘creating an abstract movement piece devised from the essential qualities of the character taking place in a scene outside of the play’. Today’s work is about devising a personal warm-up, rehearsing the movement material for the assessment,[...]

Week 9

Year 1 Day 1 Objective: Level 1 will have a movement assessment next week. Today’s work in class is to work with ‘listening to the body’, and developing a working process for developing abstract movement out of an intention Areas of Bess: Body- fundamental Effort - effort elements Space -attention to spatial considerations LMA principles: Body level[...]