Knes 327 Teaching Cultural Dance Forms and Creative Movement for Physical Education Majors
Knes 341 Concepts of Motor Learning
Knes 426 Motor Development
Research and Professional Interests
The Intersection of Dance Education and Somatic Practices
Movement Based Assessment tools for both dance and somatic practices
Balance and Gait Assessments in Atypical Populations
Recent Publications
Lobel, E. E. (2008). Dance. In R. A. Shweder (ed.), The Chicago Compendium to the Child. Chicago: IL; The University of Chicago Press.
Brodie, J. A. & Lobel, E. E. (2008). More than just a mirror image: The visual system and other modes of learning and performing dance:. Journal of Dance Education, 8(1), 23- 31.
Lobel, E.E. &Brodie, J.A. (2006). Somatics in Dance; Dance in Somatics. Journal of Dance Education, 5(4), 105-111.
Lobel, E. E. &Brodie, J. A. (Eds). (2006). Practical Application of Somatic Principles in the Classroom [special issue]. Journal of Dance Education, 5 (4), 105-158.
Brodie, J. A. & Lobel, E. E. (2004). Integrating fundamental principles underlying somatic practices into the dance technique class. Journal of Dance Education, 4 (3), 80-88.
Certifications
Certified Laban Movement Analyst/Bartenieff Fundamental Practitioner, since 1991
Certified in Elementary and Intermediate Labanotation, 1999 and 2000 respectively.
Certified Awareness Through Movement Teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, completed August 2008.
Completing certification as a Feldenkrais Method Practitioner (August 2010)
News/Interesting Tidbits
Senior Research Fellow Award from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies (LIMS), New York, NY.
Founding member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Feldenkrais Research Foundation, New York, NY.
Editorial board member for the Journal of Dance Education.
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