Dance--United States--20th century.

Abstract Irmgard Bartenieff (née Dombois, b. February 24, 1900, Berlin; died August 27, 1981, New York City) was a German-born American dancer, choreographer, teacher, Labanotator, dance therapist, physical therapist, dance historian, and activist. During the 1920s, Bartenieff studied modern dance, movement analysis, and movement notation at the Rudolf Laban School in Munich and danced with the Tanzbühne Laban. She taught and performed in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany through...

Abstract The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS) is a non-profit educational organization, centered in Brooklyn, New York, with a global network of movement professionals. Founded in 1977 and formally established in 1978 by Irmgard Bartenieff and a small group of movement analysts, LIMS trains individuals in movement observation and analysis. Upon completion of a full course (four modules plus a final project), LIMS trainees are given the title Certified Movement Analyst (CMA)....

Abstract Max Waldman (1919-1981) was an American photographer of the performing arts, with a focus on theatre and dance in New York City in the middle twentieth century. Waldman actively documented the theatre and dance communities in New York from the mid-1960s until his death in 1981. Waldman was particularly drawn to more experimental forms of dance and theatre and he documented everyone from Merce Cunningham to the Living Theater to Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Max Waldman collection of performing...