Karen Kohn Bradley is Visiting Associate Professor of Dance and Director of Graduate Studies in Dance at the University of Maryland. She is a Certified Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis and Chair of the Board of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City. She has worked as a classroom teacher, dance/movement therapist, massage and bodywork practitioner, and theatre choreographer, applying her training in LMA and related modalities to all. She is a specialist in Movement for Actors and she consults regularly to educators nationally on arts education, research, and policy. She has been a member of the State of Maryland Task Force on Arts and Higher Education Arts Task Force (HEAT) to Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS). Bradley has authored many articles and chapters on dance education research and policy and most recently, co-authored a chapter entitled "The Dance of Learning" in the forthcoming updated Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children. (Spodek and Saracho, Techbooks Press, 2005) She is currently writing a book about Rudolf Laban and his performance practices for Routledge's series on 20th Century Performance Practitioners (due July 2007).