Belle Faust

# chapter 2. The World of the dancer (1920) .. Laban saw not only a physical, but also an intellectual and spiritual function in dance. More than that, he was concerned with how we can make sense of dance in terms of its 'experience', without imposing any sort of logical framework on the practice, which may distort it.. also he maintains that there is 'thought' to dance itself : To the dancer al..

# chapter 5. Choreography (1926) Choreography is one of Laban's more systematic studies of movement.. Laban didn't want to notate static postures and floor patterns, but the spatial form of actual movement. More than that, he also wanted to grasp the 'tension of the whole body which automatically produces the attitude of the limbs' - this is more than muscular tension, but the inner structure of..

# chapter 11. Choreutics, written in 1938, published in 1966 .. Choreutics presents the grammar and syntax of spatial form in movement and the nature of movement's harmonic content.. While the harmonics of spatial movement manifest themselves in practice within the 3D map of space of an icosahedron, Laban starts his discourse illustrating it with diagrams of a cube to ease a reader into the mate..

# chapter 14. Effort(1947) .. Laban's concept of Effort, in terms of movement, and the terminology given in the book, enable us to have a definitive understanding of whatever effort we make, in any situation and not only at work. It may be that we are using wrong efforts, lopsided efforts, do not know how to handle effort fatigue, or are applying much more effort to a task than is needed. The Bo..