Teachers of the EUROLAB Certificate Programs

The english-speaking intensive EUROLAB Certificate Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) are directed by Antja Kennedy. She teaches the entire program together with the core teachers Eva Blaschke and Christel Büche.

Guest teachers will be invited to cover special topics and application areas. All teachers are trained in LBMS and are professionals in different areas such as: dance, therapy and pedagogy.

 

Core Teachers

Antja Kennedy

Since 1983 freelance dance teacher, dancer, choreographer and movement analyst. Certificate in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (CMA) in Seattle, Washington, USA (1984). Bachelors Degree in Dance at Empire State College, New York. Certificate as a practitioner in Movement Pattern Analysis by MOTUS Humanus, Denver, USA. Certificate in Movement and Bodywork, GALA/Gaia University. She is a co-founder of the Tanzfabrik Berlin and worked 10 years as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and organizer. She is a founding member of EUROLAB e.V. and worked for 12 years in the executive committee.

Since 1992, she has taught at several nationally recognized dance trainings and at various universities. In 2001 she was a guest lecturer at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt. In the summer of 2003, she was guest professor at the University of Hamburg, in the Department of Sports/Movement Science. 2000-2013 she taught at impuls, Bremen, a vocational school with state recognized degree, mainly the subjects dance improvisation and bodywork. Since 2002 she has performed solos almost every year in various contexts (among others, “Tanz Bremen”). 10 years she was a part of the steering committee of Global Water Dances and has directed the performances in Bremen (2011), Bremerhaven (2013) and in Steyerberg, Lower-Saxony, Germany (2019, 2023 & 2025).

Since 1990, she has been teaching and since 1995 directing the EUROLAB Certificate Programs in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. She has published several articles and a book in German ("Bewegtes Wissen"). An article in English was published in „BODY-LANGUAGE-COMMUNICATION, an International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction“, 2013.

www.antjakennedy.de


Christel Büche

She has a degree in Social Work and is a Dance Therapist (BTD). She is educated in Modern Dance and is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) since 1993. She holds a certificate in Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and has completed a Yoga teacher training. She works as a dance- and movement teacher in various contexts. She is very interested in teaching the concepts of LBMS to other movement professionals to broaden their understanding of movement and dance. She is a faculty member of the EUROLAB Certificate Program since 1999 and in the Dance Therapy training at the Tanztherapie Zentrum Berlin since 2000. She has also taught LBMS in the Master Degree Program in Dance Therapy at the University in Heidelberg. Besides these contexts of further education, she also teaches movement and dance classes to different clientele like seniors or mentally ill people. Her focus is to enable the participants to have more expressiveness and being alive. www.christel-bueche.de 


Eva Blaschke

She is a dancer, dance teacher and has a Masters Degree in Education. She is trained in Modern Dance, New Dance (USA), LBMS (CMA/Berlin), Contact Improvisation, Trapeze Dance (with Clover Catskill) and Gyrokinesis (a dynamic form of Yoga).

Since 1994 she has been performing in Germany and other countries with different interdisciplinary ensembles with mutual dialogue between dance, music and space, for example the Slices-Ensemble, the Performancebühne Berlin, the Airborn Dancers and the Global Water Dances Berlin.

She has been teaching introductory LBMS courses since 1994 at Tanzfabrik Berlin and has been teaching as a guest in the EUROLAB Certificate Program since 2005. Since 1999 she has been teaching in the fields of education and health care and since 2007 in the “Dance Intensive” program of Tanzfabrik Berlin. Her concern is connecting bodywork with dance as well as bodywork and coaching on a very deep level. The coaching can be a choreographic one, where she helps artists to clarify and intensify their artistic expression in their work - or it can be in the field of management, together with the Business Coach Caroline Meder.

www.evablaschke.de


Adjunct Teachers

Anita Hernádi

She is a dancer, performer artist, dance teacher and a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA). As a child she trained as a rhythmic gymnast and then as a synchronized swimmer. She began her dance career at 14 in different theaters in Hungary. She got her certificate as a professional dancer in Budapest. She toured throughout Hungary and worked alongside dancers from the Hungarian State Opera House. In 2012 Anita became a member of the Coincidance Dance Company. For one year she learnt the basics of Irish tap dance and toured Sarajevo with the company.    

In 2013 Anita moved to Berlin and started to work with several artists from different interdisciplinary artistic fields. In 2017-2019 she studied in Dance and Movement Therapy at NeuRaum. Since 2018 Anita has expanded her practice by becoming a dance teacher at the sports club and Tribal Dance Academy, in addition to giving private lessons and running workshops. She is a CO-Founder of IN.TO Collective and in 2020 she started to work at Kids Circle as a coach to give creative dance classes. As of 2024 besides teaching, she also does choreographic work with beginners in Gymnasiums.  

After four years of study she became a CLMA, spent the next four summers assisting and as of 2025 she is teaching in the EUROLAB Certificate Programme. She is currently a part of a U.S. National Science Foundation research project. 

anita hernadi


Susanne Montag-Wärnå

Teaching degree for elementary and secondary school (University of Hildesheim), followed by studies/training as a state-certified teacher for Dance and Dance Gymnastics at the Lola-Rogge School in Hamburg. She then did a teaching internship for the second state teaching exam at the Integrated Comprehensive School in Bad Oldesloe/ focusing on, among other things, “Didactics of Dance in Schools/Creation and Performance.” Independent further training with numerous teachers in bodywork and improvisation techniques.

Since 2003 she is a resident in Parainen/Finnish archipelago. There she is working as a freelance performance and dance artist, choreographer, movement educator for all ages, at the Turku University of Applied Sciences (dance education) "Arts Academy" (since 2018) and Arkipelag Music Institute.

Since 2021 she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA), spent the four summers assisting and as of 2023 she is teaching in the EUROLAB Certificate Programme. She is in the steering committee of EUROLAB Association.

With her own small company “direktmotif” (direktTraining! / direktPerformance!), she is aiming to introduce people in all fields of work to a repertoire of movement knowledge and experiential movement as a tool for communication and resonance in (working) life. Collaborations include professors and doctoral students in technical chemistry at the Turku University for Applied Science and in the city of Parainen training of nursing staff and teacher training. She is actively playing the classical flute and singing as Mezzosopran. During the last 23 years she has choreographed 24 art performances - mostly in solos.


Guest Teachers

In Berlin: 

Anja WeberBenjamin Porps, Evan Foster, Jan Burkhardt, Kathleen BarberioKerstin ReinhardtLoreen Michelfelder, Mary Copple, Thomas Schallmann (Notator)

Live-Online:

Alexandra Beller (USA), Carol-Lynne Moore (USA), Colleen Wahl (USA), Dick McCaw (U.K.), John Chanik (USA)