Exploring expressive movement requires imagination. In Mastery of Movement, Rudolf Laban provides a variety of suggestions for stimulating movement imagination. These involve both personal movement explorations as well as observation exercises.
You can read Laban’s book and do these exercises on your own. But having a structured class and an instructor providing guidance makes awakening your movement imagination much easier. That is why I have developed the online course, “Mastering Laban’s Mastery of Movement.” Across six weeks we read the first six chapters together, with structured movement composition and live and YouTube observations assignments.
Laban had a keenly analytical mind and a lot of imagination. This applies in particular to his effort theory, which is abstract and elegantly structured. Yet in Mastery, he also personifies effort combinations along a continuum ranging from the Goddess to the Demon.
In the MoveScape course, we use these images to create a transformational effort composition that is a lot of fun. To find out more, register for “Mastering Laban’s Mastery of Movement.” The course starts May 16 and can be enjoyed from the safety of your own home.