EFFORT

Interaction, Embodied Action, Expression

PROVISIONAL DATES: 6-24 July 2026 105 hours (15 days – Mon-Fri x3), Hebden Bridge, UK

Venue: Wainsgate Chapel first floor studio (please see here for access and travel information for Wainsgate Chapel)

Module 3: EFFORT – Interaction, Embodied Action, Expression

The third module includes an experiential and theoretical, in-depth focus on Laban’s concept of Effort as movement dynamics, and its qualitative coloring of all movement.

This module also includes aspects of Modes of Shape; the elastic continuum of Effort Factors and Elements, Rhythm and Phrasing, States and Drives, in  application to performance, presentation, and identifying patterns of individual expressive and communication styles. Work in this module will develop the participants’ range of dynamic expressive potential, as well as enhance the ability to recognise and respond to ‘feeling’ quality in movement. Laban’s Effort-based concepts have been drawn upon and elaborated for decades in theatre training, dance movement therapy practice and training, creative movement, dance education, clinical work, and for developing one’s ability to put inner states into outer expression.  Included in this Module is Effort as understood in Laban Movement Analysis, the Kestenberg Movement Profile, and in Warren Lamb’s Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA).

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WHAT STUDENTS RECEIVE

  • A deep immersion into the Effort category of BESS, building on a cumulative, developmental model of learning.
  • 105 total hours in professional training in Movement Analysis and Somatic Practice, including ISMETA standards of practice.
  • One-to-one meetings with an Advisor/ faculty member.
  • Individual peer and group feedback in class sessions; as well as personal time for exploration, discovery, reflecting, and writing during class hours.
  • Learning in a dynamic group environment with a high teacher-to-student ratio.
  • Hands-on re-patterning practice and training in Bartenieff Fundamentals practice; as well as other extended developmental and body systems approaches to movement experience and re-patterning.
  • Training in comprehensive movement and language skills used in dance, theatre, performance, movement research, teaching, clinical work, bodywork, yoga, Pilates, and dance movement therapy.
MODULE COURSE FEE
$3,500 USD

$500 USD due 60 days prior to each Module start date. $3,000 USD due 30 days before start date.

PREREQUISITES

  • Module 1: BODY
  • Module 2: SHAPE
  • Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis

Note: If you have not had the above BODY training, SHAPE training or the introductory level trainings, (minimum 15 hours in each), please write to info@labaninternational.org to inquire about Introductory courses available, and see the Prerequisites page for more information.

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Mathematical images courtesy ©Jean-Francois Colonna