EMOVE
Master Workshops:
continuing education for professional development
These workshops are organized for a.o. former students of EMOVE, Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysts, and other C(L)MA’s from around the world. Most of the workshops are also accessible for people who have had a significant number of hours (min. 150) of LBMS training as part of their Dance Movement Therapy program or any other Somatic Movement program.
These workshops are taught by Master teachers in the field of LBMS: faculty teachers from different LBMS programs, as well as other experienced and knowledgable teachers in this field.
Workshop Calendar
Embodied Knowing: Design Your Life Through Your Body: Master workshop with Colleen Wahl - April 28-30, 2026
This professional development workshop focuses on Embodied Knowing – how we work with what we feel and know in our bodies to make choices in our lives. A 3 day workshop in a beautiful studio next to the Maas in Maastricht. More information
Moving Our Selves: Master workshop with Joanna Brotman & Katharina Conradi - August 18-20, 2026
Moving Our Selves: Transgenerational impact and the Shape of Change. A 3 day workshop in Amsterdam. More information
The Space Harmony of the Human Body: Our Design in Action: Master Workshop with Karen Studd - Febr. 26-28, 2027
A 3-day workshop about deepening the Body/Space Connection with our Master Faculty teacher Karen Studd. More information
First Master Workshop:
Embodied Knowing: Design Your Life Through Your Body –
a workshop with Colleen Wahl at 28-30th of April 2026
Register for this Master Workshop
Embodied Knowing: Design Your Life Through Your Body
Topics will include sensation, perception and intuition; creating movement experiences for embodied knowing; and reflection practices. The content is organized through a model for embodied knowing that helps us bridge Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis into the wisdom of our bodies. We will also explore a variety of forms and practices that we can use in our work with clients to help them develop their own Embodied Knowing.
Colleen Wahl is a master somatic movement educator, author and dance artist. She directs Integrated Movement Studies, a graduate certificate program in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and is an Associate Professor of Dance at Alfred University. She is the author of two editions of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications and has a new book Embodied Wisdom: Navigating Life Through the Moving Body, forthcoming. Colleen co-hosts the podcast “Embodied People” with Sarah Donohue.
She also runs a fitness and movement education practice, Move into Greatness, that integrates Touch for Movement Repatterning, corrective exercise and somatic education. Her love of nature and outdoor adventure drive her current writing and artistic practice.
She holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Dance from SUNY Brockport, a Masters in Liberal Studies from SUNY Empire State College, and a Bachelors in Dance and Arts and Education from William Smith College. She is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst through Integrated Movement Studies, a Master Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists Association) and Certified Personal Trainer through NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine). She is also a Certified Simonson Teacher and is in process with Z-Health curriculum.
Practical Information:
When:
28th to 30th of April 2026 from 9.30am to 5.30pm
Where:
On the edge of Maastricht next to the Maas, in a beautiful dance studio of the dance company Sally, in the AINSI building.
Address: Lage Kanaaldijk 112-113 6212 NA MAASTRICHT
Costs:
€ 450 (exempt from VAT)
Overnight stays and lunch are not included
There is an early bird discount of € 45 available until January 28, 2026: use the discount code “EmbodiedKnowing2026”
Registration:
Registration is only possible as long as places are available. When the workshop is fully booked, you can register for a waiting list. Click here below for the link to the registration form.
Registration Form Embodied Knowing
You can click here to Register for the Master Workshop with Colleen Wahl
Second Master Workshop:
Moving Our Selves: Transgenerational Impact and the Shape of Change –
a workshop with Joanna Brotman & Katharina Conradi at 18-20th of August 2026
You will be able to sign up for this Master Workshop will be able soon
Moving Our Selves: Transgenerational Impact & the Shape of Change
Moving Our Selves is an application of LBMS designed to support self-knowledge and growth through a study of one’s own movement tendencies. It uses a unique graphic representation process that reveals the relationship between the parts and the whole of one’s patterns and illuminates the correlative and associative aspects of movement and personal meaning.
This workshop focuses on how we are shaped by the histories of those who came before us. What is transmitted through family narratives, cultural myths, and unintegrated experiences? What have we inherited and how can we reshape our responses to support greater choice and fullness in our lives? We will engage memory and imagination – moving, writing, and drawing – to creatively embody the unique trajectories of generational material and our adaptations to it.
This workshop will be lead by Joanna Brotman & Katharina Conradi
Joanna Brotman is a dance artist, educator, lecturer, and writer based in New York City. She is a Certified Movement Analyst (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies), Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Master Somatic Movement Educator (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and Certified Evans Teacher (Evans Somatic Dance Institute). Joanna teaches in Laban Bartenieff Certification programs and designs workshops for artists, educators, and therapists in the Netherlands, Israel, Scotland, Germany, Russia, Poland, London, and the United States. She has been a professor in the Master’s program at Rutgers University and guest faculty at various colleges, universities, and institutions.
Joanna has performed internationally as a dancer, and her choreography has been commissioned by dance and theater companies. She has received grants and artist residencies in support of her intergenerational dances integrating professional and community dancers in underserved populations. Her writing can be found in Creative Arts in Education and Therapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Inspirees Institute, China), Beyond Frontiers: Movement Analysis and Related Fields (Logos Verlag Berlin), and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press, United States). Joanna is Chair of the Dalton Dance Department in New York City and a Master of Psychoanalysis candidate at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York City.
Core Faculty and Co-founder of EMOVE
Katharina Conradi is a dance artist and tutor, a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA/LIMS), Master in Dance Movement Therapy (CODARTS) and Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (ISMETA).
She works for many years as a choreographer and dancer in the Netherlands and abroad. Her creative work includes dance movies, intercultural projects and site-specific performances.
Katharina teaches at the University of the Arts CODARTS in Rotterdam and at the Academy for Dance and Theatre in Amsterdam. She also works internationally as a teacher for somatic and creative practice in different settings. She teaches in many different institution around the world in Switzerland, Poland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Spain and Italy. Her work brings LBMS together with Creative Processes, Somatic Movement and Contact Improvisation. She also has her own private practice where she offers dance therapy, supervision and somatic coaching to clients and artists.
Practical Information:
When:
18th to 20th of August 2026
Where:
Studio De Ruimte in Amsterdam
Costs:
€ 450 (exempt from VAT)
Overnight stays and lunch are not included
An early bird discount of € 45 will be available
Registration:
Registration will be possible soon, and is only possible as long as places are available. When the workshop is fully booked, you can register for a waiting list.
Third Master Workshop:
The Space Harmony of the Human Body: Our Design in Action
a workshop with Karen Studd at 26-28th of February 2027
You will be able to sign up for this Master Workshop soon
In this workshop we will be deepening the Body/Space connection. We will begin through exploring the space of the body. The Space of the Body Content and the Space of the Body Container.
We will access the Space inside us when we move – – the space as it relates to and defines our content our Innersphere Space. Then we will also move from the perspective of the 3D space which defines our form linked to the width, length and depth of our body’s design.
We will continue next to explore the space that our actions are contained within. This is the space that our body’s form can access through its actions. This is the Space we identify as our Kinesphere. We will draw upon the Spatial Map created by Rudolf Laban but also explore new territory and expand our understanding of the space of the Kinespheric Space.
Last we will address how our shared space – the Generalspheric Space – is the Space of human interaction.
In all our explorations we will find the boundaries of Space, the choices, limitations and possibilities.
Karen A. Studd, is a Master Somatic Movement Educator and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association). She holds a master’s degree in dance from University of Oregon (USA) and is certified in movement analysis through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS). Studd is a founder of WholeMovement, a group of movement analysts working to increase the visibility of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) worldwide. She serves as a Program Coordinator and core faculty member in multiple LBMS training programs internationally. She has taught in the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Israel and China. In the USA she has taught for many university dance programs including George Mason University’s School of Dance, where she was a tenured faculty for over twenty years.
As an educator, she is focused on both personal and professional development through movement awareness training. She is also passionate about the continuing development of the System as it continues to evolve and contribute to understanding the significance and importance of human movement across all disciplines. Studd is also an author who has contributed to multiple research papers focused on human movement linked to the LBMS. She is a co-author of EveryBody is a Body, a text on the phenomenon of human movement now in its second edition. She writes blog posts for the WholeMovement website which can be found at: https://wholemovement.org/blog/
Practical Information:
When:
26th to 28th of Feburuary 2027
Where:
Will be announced soon
Costs:
€ 450 (exempt from VAT)
Overnight stays and lunch are not included
An early bird discount will be available
Registration:
Registration will be possible soon, and is only possible as long as places are available. When the workshop is fully booked, you can register for a waiting list.
