PEGGY HACKNEY

B.A. in Psychology from Duke University 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. She 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. 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. 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 is 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. In 2004, Peggy did residencies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in The Netherlands, New York University Dance Department in New York City, Enknapp Dance Co. in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Art Therapy Italiana in Bologna and Rome, Italy. She currently has a grant from the National Science Foundation through NYU to research the use of LMA to improve the dynamics of Motion Capture in Animation..More on Peggy Hackney.M

JANICE MEADEN

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. More on Janice Meaden.

PAM SCHICK

Pam is cofounder 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. More on Pam Schick.