Bartenieff Fundamentals were developed by Irmgard Bartenieff, who studied with Rudolph Laban and colleagues in Germany (1925). After coming to the United States in the 1940s, she became a physical therapist. She drew upon her complete background to develop a set of principles for corrective movement that came to be known as the “Bartenieff Fundamentals.”

Concepts and principles of Kinesiological functioning are identified which are embodied in particular exercises and extended into all types of movement possibilities.

A Somatic practitioner in multiple modalities for over 20 years, I received my CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in 2015 in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals and am currently on faculty at the Laban Institute for Movement Studies as well as teaching nationally at Princeton, Yale, Rutgers, Wake Forest, and other higher education institutions.

After 35 years as a dancer (20 also as choreographer), I have a lot of ideas about both embodiment and creative practice. None of those have gone out the window. I enjoy unpacking those ideas and using LMA and BF in order to re-assess and challenge them before rebuilding them. I believe that empathy is just as important as analysis, that not knowing is more important than knowing. I somehow manage to find cohesion between these two beliefs and the rigorous interrogation of movement that is available through the systems of LMA and BF.

…It allows the mover to be the expert on their body, with guidance and feedback as a resonant tool for locating themself.

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