Irmgard Bartenieff (1900 Berlin - 1981 New York City) is a dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and leading pioneer of dance therapy. A student of Rudolf Laban, he pursued a cross-cultural dance analysis, and produced a new vision of possibilities for human movement and motion training. From his experience applying Laban's dynamism concepts, three-dimensional movements and mobilization to the rehabilitation of polio-affected people in the 1940s, he went on to develop his own set of motion and exercise methods, known as Bartenieff Basics.
Bartenieff incorporates Laban's spatial concept into the physical anatomical activity of physical therapy, to improve maximum function. In physical therapy, it means thinking in terms of movement in space, not by strengthening muscle groups alone. The introduction of spatial concepts requires awareness of the intentions of the patient side as well, which activates the will of the patient and thereby connects the patient's independent participation to his own cure. "There is no such thing as pure" physical therapy "or" pure "mental therapy, they are constantly in touch."
Bartenieff's presentation of himself was calm and, according to himself, he did not feel comfortable marketing his skills and knowledge. It was not until June 1981, a few months before he died, did his name appear in the institute's title: Laban/Bartenieff Institute for the Study of the Movement (LIMS), a change initiated by the Board of Directors in his honor.
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Biography
Irmgard Bartenieff (born February 24, 1900 in Berlin, Germany, d.27, 1981 in New York City) completed his studies in Arts and Biology and then, studied with Rudolf Laban in Berlin in 1925.
Laban
In his two-year program with Laban and his colleagues, Bartenieff studied Choreutics (Space Harmony) with Gertrude Loeser, Eukinetics (Effendi) with Dussia Bereska, dance techniques with Herman Robst and notations and compositions with Laban.
Between 1933 and 1936 when political restrictions in Germany limited his work, he made plans to emigrate. He and his second husband, who is Jewish, have a growing dance company, but their dancers, who were threatened by the Nazis with expulsion from unions, were forced to resign. During the years when the company was dissolved, Bartenieff worked on modern and historical dance notations, building an eighteenth-century dance recorded by Raoul Auger Feuillet. The Bartenieff family left Germany for the first time to New York on a visitor visa that left his son in the care of his family. The children left Germany in 1939 in the last battleship before World War II began.
Bartenieff brought Laban and his colleagues to North America, where he created arrangements to teach and train Laban's theories. Next he added Laban's work to what became known as Bartenieff Fundamentals (TM).
Polio Patients
His first appointment in the United States was as Chief Physician Therapist for New York City Polio Service at Willard Parker Hospital. She combines her Laban-based understanding of her movement with her physical therapy training in a clinical setting.
When Bartenieff observed his first polio patient, he became very conscious of their individuality in dealing with the loss of function and sudden change of self-image. "The unity of the functional and expressive aspects of the movement's behavior becomes increasingly clarified." Both aspects must be addressed in the rehabilitation setting.
In the polio treatment process, heat and hydrotherapy packages in Hubbard tanks replace bracing and casting. Passive stretching is also used to prolong the muscles that develop contractures. "In the rigid (back polio) stretches, we found that by extending the possibility of movement beyond the front flexion of the stem to enter the lateral (to the side) of flexion and rotation (rotation) we were able to build the full flexibility of the spine in all directions. move the rod passively in lateral sequence, rotate, flexion gradually into the sitting position. "In this way the normal length of the back muscles is restored. Bartenieff explains his method in an article in 1955 on the mobilization techniques he taught in many hospitals.
From 1968, at the Bellevue Hospital Center, Bartenieff's work involved a case of control/restoration of movement patterns regulated by the central nervous system rather than the treatment of peripheral problems in the affected muscles of polio patients (polio is a peripheral motor neuron disease). "My focus is on the recovery of Shaping (the ability of the body to adjust its shape or shape) possibilities by restoring verticality, and the ability to support body formation from verticality," contrasting with a more traditional focus on muscle activity without spatial reference.
Disabled Children
Seven years after his appointment at Willard Parker Hospital, he became chief of therapist and program coordinator of activities (1953-1957) at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York under the direction of Dr. A.D. Gurewitsch. Blythedale is a small private home care center, for orthopedic and neurologically handicapped children (ages 5-14). Its job is to coordinate every aspect of long-term care of a child's hospital that involves therapeutic, recreational and educational components.
For physical disability children added the emotional impact of the "stasis and regression climate" from the hospital itself. Patients have been removed from their normal experience: "Imagination, initiative, social development is suspended... My task... is to find a way to sustain motion drives - the root of all the development of thought, feeling, acting as a human... and fostering an emotional climate I have to stimulate the potential of their natural action... innate curiosity, the desire to change, the discovery of alternative ways of functioning, connecting with others, taking initiative, rejecting, affirming - all in a physical and emotional fashion - and especially , enjoy playing. "This work led to a developmental study on newborns and infants at Long Island Jewish Hospital in collaboration with Dr. Henderson. Judith Kestenberg.
Massage Bonding Network
Coinciding with the appointment of Blythedale, Bartenieff also works at the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled. In this arrangement he learns connective tissue massage and continues his work with a focus on the whole body: "We try to change as much as possible - and that means medically appropriate - the kind of conventionally localized exercise with a total motion pattern based on the fundamentals of dance.
Return to Study
While maintaining an active practice in physical therapy, Bartenieff continued his studies with Laban and his colleagues in England in the 1950s. There he adds his knowledge of Laban's Theories of Labanism and Form Theory that emerged from Warren Lamb. Back in New York, he applied these ideas in his own physical therapy practice and set up a training program for dance therapists and other movement professionals.
Dance Therapy
He held the position of research assistant of dance therapy (1957-1967) to Dr. Israel Zwerling at Day Hospital Unit at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Zwerling, a psychiatrist [...] strongly receives further dance exploration as a therapeutic tool to tame aggression and anxiety. What specifically reinforces his interest is that he has the vocabulary and notation for recording movement observations. This becomes an important factor in daily observation through one-way screens, especially from families and therapeutic groups.
Dance therapy is an emerging field of additional therapy. Bartenieff's special contribution is to bring Laban's work to areas where movement documentation is urgently needed: It provides a method of motion analysis and notation system that puts dance therapists on their own professional ground, gives them language to describe patients' movements, and eliminates the need to rely on jargon less accurately borrowed from other disciplines.
Laban-Based Training Program
In the sixty-fifth year, Bartenieff founded the first North American training program in Laban-based movement theory in the Dance Bureau. It is known as the Certification Program of Effort/Shape. Students learn how to observe and describe the qualitative and spatial aspects of the movement that Laban and his colleagues in the UK have used in various applications since the 1940s. In his own teaching, however, Bartenieff finds his disciples lacking the full integration of the whole body, or "connectedness" as he calls it, is necessary to fully experience the various qualities of the Enterprises. Thus, as a corrective action he began to teach classes in "correction" which eventually became known as the Bartenieff Foundation.
Project choreometrics
Another project of the 1960s was the Choreometrics project, which was a collaboration with Alan Lomax and Forrestine Paulay. The project brings Bartenieff into a cross-cultural study of movement, expressed in work and dance activities. An educational film entitled "Dance and Human History" (1976) shows the concept of the Choreometrics team. This project is the first to adapt Laban-based movement analysis to observing cultural/geographic differences. This is just one example of Bartenieff's acute awareness of the differences among the people of the world. In 1977-1978 he undertook a study of the fundamental cross-cultural methods of movement, presenting his findings in a major conference paper. It was Fundamental's first demonstration for Bartenieff's friends in dance research. These projects contribute significantly to the theoretical development of Business/Shape and Fundamentals.
Laban Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS)
Program Efforts/Shapes out of his home in Dance Bureau, where last year's certificate program runs from 1977-1978. It was reshaped and moved as Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS). The founding board of founders created a special LIMS as a place where Bartenieff, who at seventy-eight years old, can continue his research, writing, and teaching. In 1980 his book
"Until the last six months of his life, when he fell ill, Bartenieff defended personal physical therapy practices and taught and taught throughout the country."
He died on August 27, 1981 due to complications of Raynaud's disease.
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Bartenieff Fundamentals
Bartenieff Fundamentals is not a regulated training system. This is a basic body training approach that deals with the principle of anatomical body function in a context that promotes personal expression and full psychophysical functioning as an integral part of the totalization of the body car.
Irmgard Bartenieff says, "Body movement is not a symbol for expression, it is an expression, anatomical and spatial relationships create a barrage of rhythmic business with emotional connectivity." Functional and expressive are one in man.
Basics Bartenieff utilizes the entire Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) framework to develop movement and expressive efficiency. It emphasizes the mobility process rather than muscle strength to achieve maximum efficient and expressive movement.
For more information, see Bartenieff Basics
References
General reference
- Folk Song Style and Culture . With contributions by Conrad Arensberg, Edwin E. Erickson, Victor Grauer, Norman Berkowitz, Irmgard Bartenieff, Forrestine Paulay, Joan Halifax, Barbara Ayres, Norman N. Markel, Roswell Rudd, Monika Vizedom, Fred Peng, Roger Wescott, David Brown. Washington, D.C.: Colonial Press Inc., American Association for the Advancement of Science, Publication no. 88, 1968.
- Kabat, H. Study of neuromuscular dysfunction: XV. The role of central facilitation in the recovery of motor function in paralysis. (1952). Archives of Physical Treatment 33: 521-33, (September).
- Laban, R. Modern dance education (1975). Third edition. L. Ullmann, ed. London: Macdonald and Evans.
- Valvano, J. and Long, T. Treatment of neurodevelopment: Review of the writings of Bobaths. (1991). Pediatric Physical Therapy 3: 3 (Fall)
- Voss, D. E., Ionta, M. K. and Myers, B. J. Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation: patterns and techniques (1985). Third edition. New York: Harper and Row.
- Woodruff, D. L. Biliieff Fundamentals (TM): Somatic approach to movement rehabilitation (1992). The Union Institute. The dissertation is placed at the University of Microfilms International.
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