Tarryn-Tanille Prinsloo awarded a CMA certification

Tarryn-Tanille Prinsloo graduated with a BA (Drama) degree in 2012. In 2013 she completed her BA Hons (Drama) (Cum Laude) at the University of Pretoria. She is currently enrolled as a doctoral student and has recently submitted her thesis focused on perceiving Laban Movement Analysis as a choreographic approach towards creating screendance for examination.

She has recently completed the LIMS® Certification Program in Laban Movement Studies (CMA) at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York (LIMS). The CMA programme is a graduate-level program accredited by the National Association of School of Dance (NASD) with strict prerequisites.

Along with Dr Anchen Froneman (UFS), Uganda-based artist-scholar Jill Prybil and the UP Drama Department’s extraordinary professor Marth Munro, she is now one of only four Certified Movement Analysts (CMAs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. A CMA is a movement professional and analyst looking the human body in motion in relation to specific markers and units of analysis as identified by LIMS. The road to becoming a CMA is gruelling and involves practical training (520 hours), research and examinations in the interrelated areas of Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Observation and Notation.

The Drama Department at UP is the only institution in Africa accredited by LIMS to offer modules towards the CMA.

Tarryn-Tanille is not only a trailblazer in the movement world. She is also the award-winning screenwriter behind the feature film screenplays for Trouvoete, Mignon “Mossie” van Wyk, Skorokoro and her latest, the horror film Siembamba, which has been retitled to The Lullaby for U.S. distribution in Los Angeles. Tarryn-Tanille lectures part-time lecturer at the Drama Department in Live and Digital Performance Studies.