Welcome to my blog! I'm Ashley Wint and I have recently completed my Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis (GL-CMA) at Columbia College Chicago. I also hold a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Minor in Theatre from Grand Valley State University and have lived in Chicago for 5 incredible years.
I've been thinking a lot about the journey into the world of Laban starting in June of 2010. Full of anticipation, nervousness and a healthy dose of, "Well, here goes nothing!" I slowly became immersed in the world of movement analysis. I remember so desperately wanting to know everything all at once and ate up information when our class met one weekend a month for 14 months. Before I knew it, I was transformed. I see the world and people differently. I feel and speak differently. I am full of passion and drive to take the knowledge I've been privileged to acquire and DO something with it!
So here I am on, facing my first adventure in Laban. Certificate in hand, and ready to conquer...IT ALL! Ok, not "IT ALL" to start. World domination takes time, you guys. I am very excited to begin by working with actors in the theatre community in Chicago. For years I have had actors ask me where to take dance classes, or that they used to dance but they don't know where to go now, or that they have to dance as part of their musical theatre audition and it always throws them off. And when I began the GL-CMA program, the conversations I would get into with my theatre friends were always full of curiosity and interest on their end and excitement and bursting full of information on my end. I knew that I could share a lot of beneficial information with a number of talented people so that they might realize their artistic potential through movement and connection to their bodies.
I spend a lot of my time lately thinking about my new adventure. I think of what I will teach, how I will teach it, and when. I can't wait to be moving myself in a way that brought me back to my body and reconnected me to movement in a deep way. I want to write about this path I am now on. I want to share my challenges, triumphs, epiphanies, and questions. I want to continue to learn and grow as an artist and educator in the movement field.
It would be my honor for you to join me.
