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Dear Friend and Reader:
MY FRIEND, KAREN BRADLEY, has a job and life I totally envy. She is the head professor of the graduate program in dance at the University of Maryland,В and a movement specialist licensed in Laban Movement Analysis or LMA.
Devised by Rudolph Laban, LMAВ is a system and language for understanding, observing, describing and notating all forms of movement. LMA draws on his theories of effort and shape to describe, interpret and document human movement.
Used as a tool by dancers, athletes, physical and occupational therapists, it is one of the most widely used systems of human movement analysis.
LMA movement analysts map human movement to help people from all stripes to move in healthier and more expressive ways. LMA’s connection to dance is immediate. But its principles of movement analysis are also applied to actors, industrial workers and, yes, politicians.