Workshop:
“Unlock the Power of Movement with Laban Movement Analysis for Performing Arts practise and teaching"
By: Joan van der Mast (the Netherlands)
🗓️ Date : 7th (Mon) & 8th (Tue) July 2025
🕕 Time : 6.00 - 9.00 P.M.
📍Venue : Panggung Sasaran
Blok E15 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Jalan Sungai 2, 11800 Gelugor, Pulau Pinang
Class Fees:
Public: RM120
USM Student: RM30
Other Student: RM60
What will you learn?
Want to deepen, enrich, and make your theater and dance practice more effective?
This workshop of 6 hours provides performing arts professionals and teachers with an introduction into how the Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) system offers a powerful framework for understanding, analyzing, and conveying movement for dance and theater. By utilizing its four core components – Body, Effort, Shape, and Space – it not only help artists develop technical skills, but also stimulate their creative expression and body awareness.
Body: Understand how different parts of the body work together in movement. This promotes a holistic approach to movement and dance, focusing on coordination, isolation, and body awareness.
Effort: Bring energy, intention, and dynamics into every step. By paying attention to factors like time (intuition), weight (sensing), space (orienting) and flow (feeling) , dancers learn to execute their movements with more expressiveness and control.
Shape: Discover how the body forms and transforms in relation to itself and space. This fosters creativity and expressive imagination, essential in both improvisation and choreography.
Space: Refine spatial awareness and teach performers to move consciously within various directions, levels, and patterns. This not only makes their performance more powerful but also visually captivating.
LMA is not limited to one dance or movement style – it is applicable in classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, urban styles, theater and even in cross-disciplinary contexts. It provides a universal language for movement,
allowing you as a performer and teacher to communicate, correct, and inspire more effectively. Bring depth, clarity, and creativity to your movement and dance lessons – discover the possibilities of Laban Movement Analysis.
About the Instructor
Joan van der Mast is an internationally respected teacher, choreographer, lecturer, coach and consultant in Contemporary Dance and Laban Movement Analysis. She is a graduate of Codarts Rotterdam (BA) is a certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA, New York), a certified Stott Pilates instructor and she studied Choreology (Trinity London) and Yoga.
She is a free-lance choreographer and she is a specialist in developing dance curricula for teachers and choreographers’ programs in contemporary dance. She developed a special methodology for teaching (contemporary) dance based on Laban Movement Analysis and New Learning Principles. She is the founder and artistic director of the New Dance Center and the New Dance Young Talent Foundation in The Hague (Netherlands). She was the founder of the educational department of The Netherlands Dance Theater and is specialized in developing curricula for dance education programs on bachelors and Masters level in dance, dance education and choreography.
In1983 Joan became a faculty member of Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Academy, where she has been teaching Modern Dance Technique, Improvisation and Composition, Movement Analysis and Didactics of Modern Dance till 2010. She currently works as a staff member at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Zagreb Dance
Academy (ADU) in Croatia. She is an internationally recommended guest teacher, lecturer, coach and choreographer i.g. Goce Delcev University & Skopje Dance Theater (North Macedonia), University of Alma Mater (Dance Department) in Ljubljana, Dancelab Chelyabinsk/Russia, University of Contemporary Dance in
Bratislava, Le Grand Cru/ Africa, Irivuga Art Company Burundi, Borderline Danza in Salerno, Garage Dance Company in Napels. She created many choreographies, ig. for New Dance Center, New Dance Young Talent, Codarts, Royal Conservatory, Cadance Festival, Skopje Dance Theater, Borderline Danza.
She was the artistic director of Coloring Senses, the Dance and the Child International conference of 2006 in The Hague, and has recently been elected as Executive Board member-at-large of DaCi-International and is a board member of Dansbelang, The Netherlands.
Organized by
SOTA USM
PEARL PENANG ARTS LINK
PENANG ARTS DISTRICT
STUDIO PENTAS
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