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Welcome To LIMS EDUCATION

Explore your most fundamental language, your birthright.

From birth, we cultivate a natural language of movement, using our bodies to perform various functions, express meanings, and communicate. Movement is integral to all human activities, encompassing politics, society, culture, science, history, and art. Through a diverse range of educational programs, LIMS Education offers the opportunity to not only acknowledge movement as an innate language but also to observe, analyze, and utilize it more effectively and meaningfully in our lives. Join us in the world of movement studies!

Si-Hyun Yoo PhD, CMA

Director of Education

Our Programs

Introductory Courses

Introductory courses in Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies offer newcomers to the field of movement studies the opportunity to engage with the basic concepts of Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies in a systematic way. If you are interested in a better understanding of yourself, and others, through movement – a universal, natural language with which we are all born – the introductory courses will be the starting point of your journey.

OUR PROGRAMS

Certification Program
in Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies

LIMS’ Certification Program in Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies is a professional post-Baccalaureate educational program leading to the internationally recognized title of Certified Movement Analyst (CMA). The program is an embodied educational process in Rudolf Laban’s conceptualization of movement and Irmgard Bartenieff’s in-depth methodology of understanding the body in motion. The Program involves the study of Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentalssm through theory, embodiment, observation training, and seminars in the history of the system and its diverse areas of application.

LIMS Certification Program

What is a CMA?

Certification Program Schedules and Application Process

Our Programs

Continuing Education Courses

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Student Feedback

What Our Students Are Saying

Ann Feldman
    Ann Feldman

    Dance Teaching Artist

    I use the concepts that I have learned [from the introductory courses] for teaching dance classes for children and for teaching dance for people who have Parkinsons Disease. I utilize the dimensional cross, the diagonal cross, the effort factors and also the affinities between the effort factors and dimensions. I find the work is so helpful in teaching movement quality and the potential for dance experiences with embodiment. I am interested in learning much more.

    Taiwo Adeleye
      Taiwo Adeleye

      Movement Therapist, Dancer, Restauranteur

      As an immigrant dancer embarking on my first professional journey in America, the LIMS LABAN Certification Program was a beacon of light, guiding me through uncharted territories with grace and profound knowledge. Coming into the program with minimal understanding of Laban movement analysis, I was initially apprehensive about my ability to keep pace. However, the program’s inclusive design and the faculty’s dedication to accommodating all levels of expertise quickly dispelled my fears.

      Sara Collier
        Sara Collier

        Dance Director, Choreographer, Teacher

        Laban’s Mastery of Movement has a high degree of complexity and depth. Carol-Lynne Moore has an extraordinary comprehension and mastery on the subject. She is very structured and has a beautiful ability to transmit with great ease and clarity such complex body of knowledge. I am so grateful that LIMS offers such interesting courses lead by outstanding scholars. I highly recommend LIMS Continuing Education courses to keep developing in the spiral Movement Studies.

        Our Team

        Meet Our Faculty

        Alexandra Beller

        MFA, CMA

        Karen Bradley

        MA, R-DMT, CMA

        John Chanik

        BFA, CTT, CMA

        Cheryl Clark

        MS, R-DMT, CMA

        Cecilia Fontanesi

        PhD, BC-DMT, CMA

        Christy Funsch

        MFA, CMA

        andrea haenggi

        MFA, CMA

        Ellen Goldman

        BA, CMA, KMP, APP  (Action Profile Practitioner, Trainer) 

        Anastasi Siotas

        MFA