CMA Study Guide 2026

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📋 CMA Exam Format at a Glance

100
Questions
120 min
Time Limit
70.00%
Passing Score

📚 CMA Topics to Study (38)

Ethical Standards & Professional Applications · 9 cardsLaban Movement Analysis & Body Mechanics · 9 cardsMovement Observation & Pattern Recognition · 9 cardsSomatic Practices & Movement Re-education · 9 cardsBody Connectivity & Movement Phrasing · 7 cardsBody Connectivity & Movement Phrasing · 7 cardsBody Connectivity & Movement Phrasing · 7 cardsEthical Standards & Professional Applications · 7 cardsEthical Standards & Professional Applications · 7 cardsEthical Standards & Professional Applications · 7 cardsEthical Standards & Professional Applications · 7 cardsLaban Movement Analysis & Body Mechanics · 7 cardsLaban Movement Analysis & Body Mechanics · 7 cardsLaban Movement Analysis & Body Mechanics · 7 cardsLaban Movement Analysis & Body Mechanics · 7 cardsMovement Observation & Pattern Recognition · 7 cardsMovement Observation & Pattern Recognition · 7 cardsMovement Observation & Pattern Recognition · 7 cardsMovement Observation & Pattern Recognition · 7 cardsSomatic Practices & Movement Re-education · 7 cardsSomatic Practices & Movement Re-education · 7 cardsSomatic Practices & Movement Re-education · 7 cardsSomatic Practices & Movement Re-education · 7 cardsCMA Bartenieff Fundamentals & Developmental Movement · 6 cardsCMA Bartenieff Fundamentals & Developmental Movement · 6 cardsCMA Bartenieff Fundamentals & Developmental Movement · 6 cardsCMA Effort Qualities & Movement Dynamics · 6 cardsCMA Effort Qualities & Movement Dynamics · 6 cardsCMA Effort Qualities & Movement Dynamics · 6 cardsCMA Movement Notation & Labanotation · 6 cards

✍️ Sample CMA Questions & Answers

1. Which Effort state combines Strong Weight and Direct Space qualities?
✓ Awake State

The Awake State combines the sensing and thinking motion factors—Weight and Space—in an alert, engaged quality.

2. 'Core-distal' connectivity in Bartenieff Fundamentals describes:
✓ Simultaneous activation linking the body's core to its extremities

Core-distal connectivity is the simultaneous, integrated activation linking the body's center (core) with its extremities (distal), like a starfish pattern.

3. In Laban Movement Analysis, the term 'kinesphere' refers to which concept?
✓ The personal space bubble surrounding the mover's reach

The kinesphere is the sphere of personal space that surrounds the mover and extends to the furthest reach of the limbs.

4. The Rolfing Structural Integration approach, developed by Ida Rolf, primarily works with which tissue to reorganize the body in gravity?
✓ Fascia (connective tissue)

Rolfing manipulates the myofascial network — the fascial web surrounding muscles and organs — to release restrictions and realign the body in the gravitational field.

5. Which Shape mode is most self-referential and least related to the external environment?
✓ Shape Flow

Shape Flow is the most self-referential mode — the body grows and shrinks in relation to its own center rather than in relationship with the environment.

6. In Space Harmony, what term describes the geometric spatial forms that connect points in the kinesphere?
✓ Crystalline forms

Crystalline forms are the geometric structures in Space Harmony that connect points within the kinesphere, forming scales and pathways.

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