#laban movement analysis

[danceinspirationboard]

Dance wildly & freely-Dancecard-Teaching material for creative dance classes

Children of all ages love using the cards in dance classes. So the sets or the poster are a real treasure trove for every dance teacher. Dancers too have…

[radenkan]

SPACE

Where the body is moving and the harmonic relationships in space. This category involves motion in connection with the environment, and with spatial patterns, pathways, and lines of spatial tension. Complex system of geometry based on crystalline forms, platonic solids, and the structure of the human body.

-Organising and moving in space that were specifically harmonious

-Some were more theoretically and aesthetically pleasing.

-'Scales' of movement within geometric forms.

-Kinesphere: the area that the body is moving within and how the mover is paying attention to it.

-Spatial Intention: the directions or points in space that the mover is identifying or using.

-Geometrical observations of where the movement is being done, in terms of emphasis of directions, places in space, planar movement, etc.

space (n.)

c. 1300, "extent or area; room", a shortening of Old French espace "period of time, distance, interval" (12c.), from Latin spatium "room, area, distance, stretch of time". From late 14c. as "ground, land, territory; extension in three dimensions; distance between two or more points." From early 15c. as "size, bulk," also "an assigned position." Typographical sense is attested from 1670s.

Astronomical sense of "stellar depths, immense emptiness between the worlds" is by 1723, perhaps as early as "Paradise Lost" (1667), common from 1890s. Space age is attested from 1946. Many compounds first appeared in science fiction and speculative writing.

gravity / dimension / structure / infinity

Music coming from all around not only from the front

[radenkan]

SHAPE

How the body is changing shape and what motivates it to do so.

-"Shape Forms" describe static shapes that the body takes

-“Modes of Shape Change”

     -Shape Flow: Representing a relationship of the body to itself. Essentially a stream of consciousness expressed through movement

     -Directional: Representing a relationship where the body is directed toward some part of the environment.

     -Carving: Representing a relationship where the body is actively and three dimensionally interacting with the volume of the environment. (ex.miming the shape of an imaginary objet)

-"Shape Qualities" describe the way the body is changing (in an active way) toward some point in space.

     -Opening (growing larger with more extension) or Closing (growing smaller with more flexion)

     -Rising, Sinking, Spreading, Enclosing, Advancing, and Retreating

-"Shape Flow Support" describes the way the torso (primarily) can change in shape to support movements in the rest of the body

shape (v.)

Old English scapan, past participle of scieppan "to create, form, destine" (past tense scop), from Proto-Germanic *skapjanan "create, ordain", from PIE root *(s)kep-, forming words meaning "to cut, scrape, hack" (see scabies).

Meaning "to form in the mind" is from late 14c. Phrase Shape up (v.) is literally "to give form to by stiff or solid material;" attested from 1865 as "progress;" from 1938 as "reform;" shape up or ship out is attested from 1956, originally U.S. military slang, with the sense being "do right or get shipped up to active duty."

morphe / transform / give birth / twist / create

river shaping the stone

[polyliteramore]

icosahedrons and life lessons

[doc-acher]

The point light walker technique. It allows researchers to assess the movement of how a person walks without the presence of other variables. This link will let you adjust the model for male/female, heavy/light step, nervous/relaxed, happy/sad in combination to see how this is reflected in walking motion. Great reference for animators- even if you're not, it's worth a look. http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html On a side note, studies have shown that they way you move tells a lot about a person, to the point that it may significantly influence your chances of being selected as a target for crime. I know that seems really obvious, but it's nice to know the science behind it. ;)

[glittt]

"Gestures communicate too, but they are much more intimately tied to the act of speaking. They are not a language in themselves, but they are a complement to language, a partner with language, a byproduct of language. [...] When we form our thoughts into speech, some of it leaks through our hands."

[journeytoabetterself]

[labanlover-blog]

In order to be supported you must surrender. The floor will only hold you up if you yield to it.