Methods in Motion – online workshop series for dance educators

Grounded in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) and built from tried-and-true teaching notes, the series translates foundational ideas into accessible, teachable scores for diverse groups. The program provides

•     Guided bodywork based on Bartenieff Fundamentals
•    LBMS overview + deep dives into selected themes
•    Ready-to-transfer movement ideas & dance motives, with functional–expressive rationale
•    homework / research assignment between sessions
•    in-dept exchange and progression within a consistent peer group

Why Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) for educators
 

LMA gives dance pedagogues a clear language to see, name, and shape what’s happening in improvisation. It helps you differentiate movement experience, understand bodily preferences, expand habitual patterns, and multiply expressive options. In practice, LMA offers clear parameters for movement creation, and supports facilitation ("choose one variable at a time"), scaffolding from solo to group work. With LMA, you can adapt tasks to different levels while keeping the learning aim concrete and observable.
 

Why Bartenieff Fundamentals (BF) for warm-ups and technique
BF offers a practical base for tuning in—breath, core-distal, head–tail, upper–lower, body-half, and cross-lateral connectivity—so movers arrive organised, grounded, and responsive. These patterns translate directly into efficient phrasing, clear initiation, and healthier load-sharing in joints. BF scales easily (floor or standing) and helps you design warm-ups, improving students’ coordination, stability, and ease before they explore.
 

Intentions behind the dance motives we'll explore in the program
1) The dance motives are designed to keep sensing and dancing inseparable: instead of lingering in long, internal process, I turn somatic and functional goals into interactive tasks and dance ideas on music, so perception and expression evolve together. 
2) Most tasks are floor-optional —great for movers who prefer to stay standing— while still offering many ways to vary and deepen expression (initiation, effort, phrasing, flow fluctuation, focus and more). 
3) The approach equips educators to teach from the body–mind state in the room —selecting variables that meet students where they are— rather than from a pre-set semantic theme. That means students understand the material through physical and emotional experience first, with words used to support what the body already knows. 
 

FORMAT & SCHEDULE
 

Total: 17 sessions via Zoom · 2.5 hours each (incl. 10-minute break) · in English

Choose Wednesday or Sunday at registration. If you have a schedule conflict, you may attend the other group in the same week, as the contents will be identical.

WEDNESDAY GROUP — 16:00–18:30 (Central European Time)
2026: Mar 4, 18 · Apr 22 · May 6, 20 · Jun 3, 17 · Jul 1 · Oct 14, 28 · Nov 11, 25 · Dec 9

2027: Jan 6, 20 · Feb 3, 17

SUNDAY GROUP — 10:30–13:00 (Central European Time)
2026: Mar 8, 22 · Apr 26 · May 10, 24 · Jun 7, 21 · Jul 5 · Oct 18 · Nov 1, 15, 29 · Dec 13

2027: Jan 10, 24 · Feb 7, 21

MORE INFORMATION

https://www.jungyeonkim.com/aktuell/methods-in-motion-for-dance-educators/