Welcome to Landborn Living Arts – a unique multi-arts business that celebrates embodiment through dance, somatic re-education, and the creation of art furniture!
It is by living in the moment and embracing the creative impulse that life becomes artful. Peace will manifest when reverence and gratitude for life become the new cultural norm. Landborn Living Arts' goal is to contribute to the building of that new cultural norm. Through movement education we bring people into greater awareness of the innate brilliance of the human body and their own creative movement potential. Through creative art furniture people are tangibly reminded of life's beauty, humor, and mystery. Thank you for your support!
Mission Statement
To facilitate the emergence of humane interactive patterns through movement education, creative play and art.
Biography/Resume
Adair Landborn, solo dance artist, choreographer, scholar, and teacher, is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (C.M.A.), with a B.F.A. in Modern Dance from the U.S. International University, School of Performing and Visual Arts (San Diego); M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Dance/Drama from the University of Arizona (Tucson), and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Dance/Somatic Studies from Union Institute & University (Cincinnati). Integrating her doctoral studies in human culture, human ethology, and somatic studies, and her experiences with the nonviolent communication philosophy and technique developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Dr. Landborn serves the larger project of world peace by facilitating the improvisational exploration of movement play for individuals and communities. Her doctoral dissertation, “Kinesthetic Culture: A Comparative Study of the Movement Practices of Spanish Bullfighting and Flamenco Dance,” draws from her somatic, first-person experience with the two movement forms and employs theoretical perspectives from anthropology, ethnochoreology, and Laban Movement Analysis.
Dr. Landborn’s dissertation is available online from:
www.proquest.com/products_umi/dissertations/disexpress.shtml
(order number: 3241376; author: Landborn, Adair).
A native New Mexican, Dr. Landborn celebrates the diversity of cultures found in the southwestern United States and draws inspiration from the firsthand knowledge of the cultures of Asia, Europe, Spain, and Mexico she gained throughout her professional dance career. She previously served as the executive office manager and currently serves as a board member for Cross-Cultural Dance Resources at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (www.ccdr.org).
An Arizona Humanities Council Scholar, Dr. Landborn presented research papers at numerous national and international dance conferences, and is currently available through the AHC Speakers Bureau as a public lecturer on the subjects of dance, culture, somatics, and the flamenco dance genre (www.azhumanities.org). She is the recipient of many past awards, including the 1995 Howard D. Rothschild Research Fellowship in Dance from Harvard University; the 1994 HKK Memorial Research Choreographer-In-Residence Award from Cross-Cultural Dance Resources; 2001 Choreographic Showcase Award from the Connecticut Choreographers’ Forum; and Best In Arizona Award from the 1987 Tucson Women’s Video Festival. She was on the Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Roster for six years between 1988 and 1998.
Dr. Landborn’s teaching credits include two years at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, three years as a full-time member of the modern dance faculty of the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, and six years as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Her performance credits include: the Caravan Dance Collective (San Diego, California); Kinetics Dance Company (Seattle, Washington); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Oregon); the Fielday Series (New York City); Ballet Flamenco de Tere Aguirre (Tucson, Arizona); as well as performance in works by notable choreographers Karen Steele, Pamela Schick, Mark Morris, Deborah Hay, Lucas Hoving, Isa Bergsohn, John Wilson, and Pedro Alejandro. Dr. Landborn has choreographed over fifty modern dance works, and produced five full-length dance concerts, including her solo modern dance concert Kinetic Solitaire, a feminist dance/theatre event Fire Woman’s Changing Song, and concerts featuring her New York¡Vbased modern dance company, Women In Cahoots Dance Theater.
Dr. Landborn’s freelance dance career, pursued through numerous national and international venues, reflects unique areas of expertise: Laban Movement Analysis, contemporary modern dance, improvisation, choreography and performance, and flamenco dance. An inspiring performer in the flamenco genre (Adaír 'La Candela') and an articulate master teacher, Dr. Landborn communicates her keen understanding of Spanish culture and the movement elements that contribute to flamenco dance artistry. Dr. Landborn’s flamenco training, which began in 1982, includes intensive studies in Madrid, Spain from 1991¡V1992 as well as extensive field research trips to Andalusian Spain. Her primary flamenco teachers in Spain were: Carmela Greco, Manolete, María Magdalena, Cíntia Johnson, Mariano Torres, and Timo Lozano; she also studied the flamenco arts with Teo Morca, Tere Aguirre, Eva Encinias-Sandoval, Pablo Rodarte, Adela Clara, Yolanda Heredia, Eva La Yerbabuena, Antonio Canales, Omayra Amaya, Susana de Palma, La Faraona, and Tibu La Tormenta.
In 1995, Dr. Landborn adapted Laban movement notation symbols to create a unique system for the informal notation of flamenco dance. She taught this method at the annual Festival Internacional de Flamenco in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Escuela Nacional de la Danza Nellie y Gloria Campobello in Mexico City, and the Universidad de Cadiz in Spain.
Currently, Dr. Landborn is the sole proprietor of Landborn Living Arts, a multi-arts business serving Tucson and southern Arizona. She teaches movement arts (flamenco dance, modern dance, and movement integration classes) through several local venue. Dr. Landborn is committed to the full integration of music, dance, and social practices within the flamenco tradition; she teaches flamenco singing classes and performs with her flamenco performance group, the Pe?a Flamenca de Tucson. Dr. Landborn began creating art furniture using paint and collage techniques in 2003, and her unique art furniture creations have been featured at local art fairs, the Inn at Civano, the Jane Hamilton Gallery, and the Tucson Museum of Art Gallery Shop and 2007 TMA Designer ShowHouse.
Company History
Landborn Living Arts was founded in the fourth quarter of 2006 as a sole proprietorship under the direction of native New Mexican Adair Landborn. Coming right after the completion of her doctoral degree program, the establishment of Landborn Living Arts marks a significant change in the focus of Adair Landborn's career; it allows Dr. Landborn to offer her expertise and knowledge in the area of movement studies to other professionals interested in self-development, creativity, and the enhancement of interaction skills.
Landborn Living Arts became officially operational on January 10, 2007 with licensure from the State of Arizona Department of Revenue: Transaction Privilege Tax state license number 201502213, and two City of Tucson business licenses: Business Privilege License number 0194832, which authorizes retail sales; Occupational License number 0147381, which authorizes educational services.
Functioning from a home-based office and art studio located near the foothills of the Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona, Landborn Living Arts reflects the unique values of southwestern lifestyles and cultures. We currently rent movement studio space from: Tucson Academy of Ballet, Casa Vicente restaurant, Santa Rita Springs, and the ZUZI! Dance Studio and our retail art sales are made through galleries, online sales, and direct customer contact.
How You Can Help
By giving us your business! By becoming a client or customer, you can help Landborn Living Arts make living in the Tucson community an art-inspired experience for many more Tucsonans. Sign up for a dance class! Make an appointment to receive an individual movement re-patterning session! Buy or commission a piece of Landborn Living Arts art furniture for your home or office! Consider Landborn Living Arts your special source for unique gifts for friends, holidays, and special occasions! Ask your local librarian to apply to the Arizona Humanities Council to book an informative and inspiring lecture by Dr. Landborn! Attend a performance or book a performance of Peña Flamenca de Tucson! Click on the “contact us” button and make the arts an important part of your life!
Word of mouth is powerful! You can help by referring your friends to our movement education services! Invite your friends to attend our flamenco dance performances! Invite your friends to attend art shows or tell them how to access the Landborn Living Arts online art galleries! Know of a group that would benefit from movement integration classes or Soma Play? Help us make the connection that will bring them motional healing! Click on the “contact us” button!
Donations are welcome!
Do you have items you would like to donate to our art production line? Unusually shaped wooden furniture, bowls, or boxes are especially useful.
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Got Boots? Landborn Living Arts is on the lookout for down-on-their-luck cowboy boots to put into our art production line! Want to donate your old cowboy boots?
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Facilities Development!
Landborn Living Arts needs a movement studio space, an art studio/production space, and a gallery space. Ideally all three in one location! It will take time to gather the resources for such a move, but if you have any ideas or suggestions to help Landborn Living Arts achieve this goal sooner rather than later, please click on the “contact us” button! Thank you!