This class is informed by Alexandra’s varied creative practice and her teaching of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS), a system for movement observation and experience. Alexandra will draw from aspects of LBMS as tools for solo and group improvisation, and personal movement research.
Some Bartenieff Fundamental exercises will be shared at the start to activate inner connectivity for outward expression. No prior experience of LBMS is needed and all are welcome. We will play with concepts of space, body, dynamics and ways of relating to inspire one another in our dancing and composing. These are simple concepts that layer in infinite ways.
Cancellations & refunds
Prices for classes are kept very low and are subsidised by ID in order to support artists to attend. To keep admin manageable for our small team, we don’t offer refunds if you cancel or can’t attend a class, and we can’t transfer your booking to a different class/event. We hope this is understandable. If a class is cancelled or changed by ID however, we do offer refunds/transfers to everyone who has booked.
Alexandra Baybutt, PhD, CMA, RSME, (she/her) works as an artist, educator and researcher. Her professional experiences include dancing, choreographing, movement directing for theatre and film, teaching, analysing, dramaturgy and research since 2004. Since 2010 she has been teaching on modular certification programmes in LBMS in Europe, including for EMove Institute (NL) and Choronde (IT). She is movement educator and member of WholeMovement; with Moving Strings (NL); and with Barefoot Opera (UK). Alexandra is vice president and dramaturge with Vibrant Matter association (Tania Soubry, LX/BE), and module convenor of performance practice, BA Creative Arts and Humanities, UCL. She is interested in the many meanings of space.
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) uses different concepts and explores moving them or putting them into action. For example, the idea of the ‘Kinesphere’: this refers to all the space around your body that you can reach into (above, in front, behind, to the sides, below etc). Your movement takes place in and reveals your Kinesphere. A movement task for this might involve increasing how much of your Kinesphere you can sense by exploring movement that uses a variety of directions, pathways, levels or how far you reach into the space around you with your limbs. This idea of the Kinesphere helps ‘map’ one’s personal space and that of others. It’s something you can sense as well as see.