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Laban Movement Analysis (View on Wikipedia)\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\n\nLaban Movement Analysis (LMA) is a system and language for understanding, observing, describing and notating all forms of movement. Devised by Rudolf Laban, LMA draws on his theories of effort and shape to describe, interpret and document human movement. Used as a tool by dancers, athletes, physical and occupational therapists, it is one of the most widely used systems of human movement analysis.\n\nExtended by the work of Irmgard Bartenieff, the system is known also as Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis or Laban Movement Studies and comprises:\n\n * Laban Movement Analysis\n * Anatomy and Kinesiology\n * Bartenieff Fundamentals (sm)\n * Labanotation\n\nQualified practitioners are known as "Certified Movement Analysts" (CMAs) or "Certified Laban Movement Analysts" (CLMAs).\n\nOn a stylistic note, terms which have specific meaning in the system are typically capitalized. Thus there is a difference between "strong weight effort" and "Strong Weight Effort". The former is an English phrase with a variety of connotations. The latter is LMA specific vocabulary referring to one of the two configurations of Weight Effort, a qualitative category of movement expression.\nContents\n\n * 1 Laban Movement Analysis\n o 1.1 Body\n o 1.2 Effort\n o 1.3 Shape\n o 1.4 Space\n * 2 Anatomy and kinesiology\n * 3 Labanotation\n * 4 Bartenieff Fundamentals(sm)\n * 5 Centers\n * 6 See also\n * 7 References\n * 8 External links\n\n[edit] Laban Movement Analysis\n\nLMA (Laban Movement Analysis) is a development of Laban's theories. It includes studies in 4 inter-related categories: Body/ Effort/Shape/Space. LMA/BF is the integrated study of Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff's embodiment of his theories.\n\nLMA has four main categories: Body, Effort, Shape, and Space.\n\n[edit] Body\n\nThe body category describes structural and physical characteristics of the h