January is often a month of reflection, a time to think about past and future, pattern and change. Consequently, this month’s blogs are devoted to four individuals who have reflected on pattern and change in human movement – Henri Bergson, Warren Lamb, Irmgard Bartenieff, and Judith Kestenberg.
The French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was deeply affected by the instantaneous photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. While these snapshots of moving animals and people revealed aspects of movement too rapid to be perceived by the naked eye, Bergson also discerned that such images turned movement, which is an undivided process of change, into a series of static images.
Here is what Bergson wrote: “It is not the simple snapshots we have taken along the course of change that are real; on the contrary it is flux, the continuity of transition, it is change itself that is real.”
Find out more about pattern, change, and movement in the next blogs.