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In the last 32 years, Janet has performed with many dance companies, choreographed, directed, trained dancers and dance movement therapists, designed educational training programs, and presented workshops and master classes throughout Great Britain, Europe, the US, Canada, and in India. In 2003/4 Janet designed and directed the first Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS®) Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) intensive at York University, Toronto. The Founder/Director of Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International/Canada (LSSI/LSSC), Janet is also a registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA), a Senior Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist (ADMP, UK), and a Movement Pattern Analysis Practitioner.
After ten years of professional dance training, and music studies at Loyola College of Music, Janet began performing in 1977 with both Modern and contemporary Indian dance companies in New  York City – including Sophie Maslow Dance Company, Daniel Maloney and Dancers, and Bhaskar Dances of India. In 1980, she co-founded as dance editor, the newspaper INSTEP with the Performing Arts of New York, and founded her own Repertory Dance Theatre Company in 1983. After incorporating Yoga, Zena Rommett floor barre, and Pilates matwork as adjunct practices to technique training in New York, Janet met and commissioned CMA Gregg Lizenbery to work with her Repertory company. Gregg’s expression of elegant artistry, technical ease and authenticity inspired her to integrate Bartenieff Fundamentals (BF) into other somatic practices, as part of an eclectic, body-centered training for professional dancers. This also lay the groundwork for her to develop training applications in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (LMA) and Somatic Practice for the next 25 years.
Janet received her CMA from LIMS, while performing with Peter Madden’s Dance Process, and working at Sports Training Institute, and Sports/Dance/Fitness in New York City. In 1990, she established a private practice as a Movement Consultant in New York and New Jersey; and began teaching as core faculty on LIMS’ intensive and weekend CMA programs at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 1995, Janet relocated to London, England as full time faculty for LABAN’s professional Dance Theatre training and Dance Movement Therapy degree programs. She received her Masters of Arts with distinction in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies, from the University of Essex, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. Janet’s dissertation thesis “The Phenomenological Body and Analytical Psychology” was subsequently published in the academic Jungian Journal, Harvest. Other articles “Phenomenology and Movement Observation” and “Shape as Lived Movement” have been published in international Dance Therapy quarterlies; "Imagination and the Mundus Imaginalis" in Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture, Philosophy and Psychology Issue, 2007; and “Anima and Animus Embodied” in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 2009. Janet has found rich ground for further contextualizing LMA/BF and other Somatic Practices in the fields of Phenomenology and post-Jungian theory.
During a decade of full time work in England, Janet developed and established the first somatically-based LMA, and Experiential Anatomy and Technique syllabii used as Fundamental Skills training in LABAN’s Dance Theatre training courses. She also created the first integrative LMA/BF course model used as a core teaching component in the Diploma/MA in Dance Movement Therapy in the UK. At Goldsmiths College, University of London, Janet collaboratively designed an integrated DMT/Movement Psychotherapy MA degree within the subject area of Art Psychotherapy, Unit for Psychotherapeutic Studies. In 2003, Janet spear-headed the full time 2-year Masters program as its first Course Leader.
In addition to recruiting for LABAN throughout Europe for many years, Janet has presented on-going somatic LMA/BF workshops for faculty and students in London, Camarthen, Paris, Bratislava, Zagreb, Warsaw, Hvar; and Prague, where she provides annual professional development and training for dance therapists and trainees. In India, Janet presented BF and Contemporary Technique training for dancers at the Shankar Centre for Performing Arts, Calcutta; and co-designed DMT workshops for NGO workers sponsored by a British Council development project in Bengal.
In 2007, Janet designed a somatic movement program for Sensori Spa, part of Suncani Hvar’s island resort in Croatia; and completed Certification as a Practitioner of Warren Lamb’s Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA). Presently residing in the States, Janet directs LSSI’s Modular Certificate Programs in Movement Analysis and BodyMind Practice™, conferring Certification in Laban Studies in affiliation with LIMS; and presents workshops in England and Europe.
Janet is also available for Workshops and Seminars in Movement in Public Speaking and Improving Nonverbal Communication Skills. For more information, see www.labancan.org/mpa.htm.
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