The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS) in New York was founded in 1978 as a center for the development and study of the principles of Laban Movement Analysis, formulated by Rudolf Laban and further developed by his student and colleague Irmgard Bartenieff. The Institute maintains a library and media resource center that includes published and unpublished text, films and photographs on the subject of Laban Movement Analysis.