Everyone who has ever studied Laban will have some familiarity with the spatial scales he designed, such as the Dimensional and Diagonal Scales. But did you know that Laban also created effort scales?
In Mastery of Movement Laban wrote: “Anybody can start with any of the basic action moods… He can then with greater or less effort mobility run through whatever scale of moods he likes.”
The effort scales that Laban designed support effort harmony and a balance of dynamic energies.
In the upcoming course, “The Transformation Drives,” we explore Passionate, Visionary, and Spell-binding effort scales. These explorations open new vistas in the Dynamosphere and provide novel approaches to effort phrasing.
Find out more in the next blog.