Meet CLMA, Leslie Bishko, who integrates Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis with animation. In this unique discussion she dives into how she applies L/BMA to animation and teaching animation.

Leslie’s program, Laban for Animators™ empowers both animation students and professionals with the glue between animation and acting, through becoming “movement nerds,” and understanding how movement is expressive.

Biography for Leslie: Leslie Bishko is an Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Animation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is an animator, lifelong dancer, and Certified Laban Movement Analyst.

Her unique approach of integrating Laban Movement Analysis with animation led to numerous publications, including books such as Acting for Animators (Ed Hooks), The Animation Bible (Maureen Furniss), Non-Verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds (Theresa Jean Tannenbaum et al), Animation Journal, conferences, and workshops.

Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Embodied people is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Join us as we talk with Nicole Perry about how her work as a intimacy director and choreographer has inspired the way she works with consent as a pedagogical practice. Learn to find an embodied YES, and an embodied NO in your own body. Learn how to translate this into activating the teaching and learning context.

Nicole has a new book coming out, published through Routledge. Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy is an interactive text that provides theory and tools for practice on creating a movement pedagogy of care.

This book brings together theories and tools of consent-forward, trauma-informed, and psychologically safe pedagogies and pedagogies of care, specifically for dance and movement teachers. It begins with power assessments for educators, then offers insights on the ripple effects of those powers in the classroom on students’ consent, agency, and psychological well-being. Each chapter includes reflective prompts for educators to examine their current classroom practices, as well as imagine new possibilities. Specifically in the second half of the book, chapters include multiple tools and/or templates for movement educators to use in incorporating new pedagogic practices into their classroom, including their syllabus, class design, and assessment. Reminders of the big ideas or highlight concepts conclude each chapter.

What is embodiment? How do we teach it and know what we know? This special episode is a discussion between Sarah and Colleen as they discuss embodiment and the practice of teaching embodiment.

We also discuss teaching L/BMA in different cultures and how the material translates and how it may not. This is the beginning of a conversation we should have more and more of.

Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

and sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies.