Meet the Faculty

Janice Meaden (Co-Founder, Director of Berkeley & Utah Certification Programs, Core Faculty)

Janice holds a Master of Arts in Education from Antioch University, Seattle, where she pursued a course of study focused on creativity and adult learning theory. Her five year tenure as Head of Modern Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts allowed her the opportunity to experience and explore issues of cross cultural education while touring Asia as a guest performer and lecturer. Janice has been teaching the Laban/Bartenieff work since 1980. From her initial interest in dance performance, she expanded her passion for the movement arts into using movement as an inroad to learning and personal knowing. Janice has been an active member of the Seattle-based Institute for Creative Development's Consultants to Education team, which facilitates educators in re-visioning their purpose as educators during this time in culture. Janice is co-founder of Integrated Movement Studies, and is Director of the IMS Certificate Program in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies at the University of Utah. She has trained in Body-Mind Centering, CranioSacral Therapy, and Pilates which she integrates with her Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in a private somatic practice focused on movement education and the healing arts.

Peggy Hackney (Co-Founder, Core Faculty)

Peggy holds a B.A. in Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, from Duke University (with a double major in Education), and an M.F.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. In addition, she is a Certified Teacher of Labanotation, a Registered Movement Thereapist (ISMETA), and a Certified Massage Therapist. For the last year Peggy served as Director of Dance at UC Berkeley, and continues to teach there now that her time as Director is over.

Peggy has been involved in the Laban work since 1963. She was a co-founder of the Intensive LMA Certification Programs in New York City, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Berlin, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Peggy graduated from the very first Effort/Shape Certificate Program in New York City and was a colleague of Irmgard Bartenieff for nearly 15 years. Peggy performed with many dance companies in New York City for 10 years before joining the Bill Evans Dance Co. and touring the USA. She was on the Dance Faculty of the University of Washington for 11 years, and has taught throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Australia. She helped to found Seattle's performance space for emerging artists entitled, "On The Boards." In addition to directing and teaching in the IMS programs, she was the Assistant Director of the Moving On Center Certificate Program in Somatics and Participatory Arts in Oakland, CA. She is the author of “Making Connections: Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals,” (Routledge). available from Taylor and Francis Publishing: 1-800-634-7064. Other publications include her video tape, “Discovering Your Expressive Body,” and “A Study Guide to Elementary Labanotation,” both distributed by Princeton Book Co.

Peggy is happily married to Rob Anglin, who does architecture in the Napa Valley. Their daughter, Ashby Anglin, works for the United Nations in NYC. In recent years Peggy has done teaching residencies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy,  New York University Dance Department, Enknapp Dance Co. in Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Yoga Room in Sydney, Australia, the Australian Dance Movement Therapy Association in Melbourne, and Art Therapy Italiana in Bologna and Rome, Italy. She has had grants from the National Science Foundation through the NYU Computer Science Dept. to research the use of LMA to improve the dynamics of Motion Capture in Animation (see www.movement.nyu.edu/LMAPlayer.  And additionally, Peggy is on the GreenDot Project team at NYU—a group that is training computers to analyze Movement Signature of world leaders. (www.movement.nyu.edu/GreenDotProject)

Peggy loves working with both groups and private clients as they engage in meaningful movement!

Ed Groff (Core Faculty)

B.A. The Evergreen State College, Olympia; M.F.A. Connecticut College, New London; C.M.A. The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, New York. Ed Groff is currently a member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He has served on the faculties of Temple University, Hampshire College, Connecticut College, The University of Utah, Tufts University and The Evergreen State College. He has served on the faculties of Certification Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute in New York, The Ohio State University, The University of Washington, Eurolab in Berlin and The Rotterdamse Dansacademie in Rotterdam Holland. His choreography has been presented in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Taipei Taiwan, Rotterdam Holland and other locations.

Pam Schick (Co-Founder, Core Faculty)

Pam is co-founder of Integrated Movement Studies and is Core Faculty for the IMS Certificate Program in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. She has been a previous Director of the Laban Movement Analysis Certification Program at the University of Washington and has been on Laban/Bartenieff Certification faculties for 20 years. A Fellow of the professional movement organization, Motus Humanus, she has contributed to the development of the Laban theories in Space Harmony and has done seminal work in the uses of movement in Psychotherapy. Pam is a therapist and movement re-educator practicing in physical therapy clinics in the Seattle area. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice with a movement and creative process orientation. Well known as a movement educator, she has taught at colleges and universities for over 25 years. Along with Janice and Peggy, Pam was a founding member of On The Boards, an arts presenting organization in Seattle. She has been a recipient of numerous Washington State and NEA choreographic grants and awards.

Brenton Cheng (Faculty)

Brenton joined the Integrated Movement Studies faculty in 2007. He is also an adjunct faculty at University of San Francisco, where he developed the Laban curriculum, required for all dance and theater majors. In addition, he created "Moving Space", the first Laban iPhone app -- a compendium of the Laban Space Harmony scales. Brenton is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received his undergraduate and graduate training at Princeton Unversity and Stanford University.

Cadence Whittier (Faculty)

Cadence Whittier joined the Integrated Movement Studies faculty in 2005.  She is also an Associate Professor of Dance at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, where she teaches courses in LMA/BF, kinesiology, dance pedagogy, human development, and classical ballet and modern dance. Cadence enjoys exploring innovative approaches to teaching classical ballet, and has presented and written about the integration of LMA/BF theories and classical ballet pedagogy in national and international conferences/journals.  She also continues to present her choreography on both local and national stages and currently serves as the Artistic Director for Finger Lakes Dance! an annual concert series that features the work of artists from the Finger Lakes New York region.  Currently, she performs with three Rochester, NY dance companies: the Bill Evans Dance Company, BIODANCE, and Present Tense Dance. She received her MFA in Ballet from the University of Utah and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis from IMS