Janet Hamburg is a certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA), a professor of dance in the Department of Music and Dance and an Associate of the Gerontology Center. She also is the Director of Senior Wellness and Exercise for the Center for Movement Education and Research in Los Angeles and a Senior Research Associate for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City. She received her master’s degree in dance from Mills College and her certification in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. She is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.
She received the Laban/Bartenieff Institute’s first Laban Award for Creative Achievement by an artist or researcher in 2004. In 2005, the University of Kansas awarded her a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and the Lawrence Arts Commission presented her with a Phoenix Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement.
Her research on Parkinson’s disease resulted in an exercise DVD/video, Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson’s, co-produced and distributed by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation in New York City and recommended by the major national and regional Parkinson’s foundations. Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson’s received the University Continuing Education Association’s 2005 Outstanding Noncredit Program Award, the top national award of this Washington, D.C.-based organization.
Her work with athletes has been featured on NBC national television and the U.S. Information Agency’s international program Science World. Her Bartenieff Fundamentals-based pre-warm-ups for aerobic and resistance workouts were featured in Shape Magazine and her LMA approach to exercise and fitness appears in Moving and Motivating with Laban Movement Analysis in Mind-Body Fitness for Dummies.
Hamburg has taught in the Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and has been a guest teacher at the Juilliard School of Music, the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and the Sports Training Institute, all in New York City. She was a core faculty member of the New Mexico Laban Certification Program and a guest faculty member for the Laban Certification Program in Berlin, Germany. She has presented Laban/Bartenieff-based research at medical centers and at national and international conferences. Her work has been published in refereed journals. She also has taught LMA classes in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, as well as throughout the United States.
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