University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1984
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"I'm not teaching them all of the theory,
and that's really unimportant," she said.
understand the principles behind the movement analysis.
"Often the drill doesn't look like anything that they'll do because it's just working on one component part," she said. "Then they will try to find a very complex set of coordinated patterns."
HAMBURG, WHO HAS been dancing since she was 4, has an undergraduate degree in urban and social systems engineering from New York State University in Buffalo and a master's degree in dance from Mills College in Oakland, Calif. The 33-year-old movement specialist was certified in Laban Movement Analysis in New York in 1982.
She offered her first course in the movement analysis in the 1982-83 academic year, when she also began working with the dance companies. She now offers the course every fall.
Scott Calder, assistant coach for the women's track team, took that first course
when he was a graduate student in the HPER department.
"Ever since the course, I've incorporated a lot of the ideas I learned in class," he said, "and I communicate differently with the athlete about what the move feels like."
CALDER SAID THAT Hamburg was trying to help the athletes move freely and easily
For example, when a deer jumps over a fence it isn't conscious of the movement, he said, it effortlessly jumps over the obstacle. that is how an athlete should move, he said.
Kari Hagby, Kana Norway, Norway,
senior, said Calder suggested that she work with Hamburg to improve her disc throw. Hagby has trouble keeping her hips aligned with her shoulders and using the left side of her body to strengthen her throw.
Hamburg said one of the first things she had Hagby do was hold her keys in her left hand to make her aware of the left side of her body.
This is a starting point in getting her to use
all of her body in the throw, Hamburg said.
CALDER SAID THE emphasis on the "complete athlete" was a key difference between biomechanical analysis and Laban Movement Analysis.
"Whereas a biomechanics person might get an athlete to change a left knee or a right foot, he said, "the Laban Movement helps get the athlete to change the whole body."
This holistic approach is essential to Laban Movement Analysis. Hamburg said
"There is the idea that we are vibrating molecules that connect to the stars and to the earth."
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"This is not just about making yourself perfect and isolated," she said. "It's the human being in relation to his or her environment."
"I see that almost every department within this University could benefit from just seeing that there is another language — another tool them to look at their own discipline," she said.
She graduated last semester with three bachelor's degrees: one in history, one in English and one in art history. She wants to attend law school, earn a doctorate and eventually become an administrator in higher education.
senator and a tour guide at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
In addition, Fidler has juggled extracurricular activities with her studies. At KU, she has been a volunteer reader for the college's English department and interview show for the network, a student
Although she knew of the Rhodes Scholarship and its reputation, she said, she didn't shoot for that goal in high school, where she called her achievements average.
However, her ideology about education changed after taking a few courses at the university.
"The teachers I had here and the subjects I took here just turned me on to learning."
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Hwang
yourself so you know when you can do that and when you can't. In order to excel in your schoolwork, you have to put a fair amount of time in."
Hwang is working toward a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and one in chemistry. He said he would like to work in biomedical research after earning his master's and doctorate degrees in biochemistry. He already has been accepted to the medical
school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
But those plans may be put aside. If Hwang is selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he will attend Oxford University in England.
Hwang studies studying in England as a way of opening his eyes to a new culture. He could study biochemistry at a number of American schools, he said, but Oxford would provide exposure to the European way of life.
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