Belle Faust

# 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..

# chapter 12. Laban's concept of effort and his work in the 1940s and 1950s Effort was at the centre of Laban's thinking about movement behaviour in this Period.. He was writing about movement qualities in the 1920s when the four motion factors were : Force, Space, Time, Flight. He called this aspect of movement analysis as 'Eukinetics': the Greek prefix 'eu-' means teh senses of 'good', 'well' ..

# chapter 21. The harmony of movement, early 1950s .. Laban's system of movement analysis starts from a recognition that movement occurs in two different domains - space and time. Movement through space goes from place to place (: belonging to the outer world where actions can be seen); movement through time shifts from mood to mood (: belonging to the inner world of changing needs, impulses, an..