This month I am taking a page from H.L. Mencken, the journalist and humorist. In the 1920s he penned an essay “On Being an American,” noting that “There are those who find it disagreeable – nay impossible.” In the rest of the essay, Mencken explains why he remains in the United States, “wrapped in the flag,” while other intellectuals set sail for fairer lands.
There are those who now find it disagreeable to be a Laban Movement Analyst. Yet here I stand, wrapped in notation symbols, devoted to movement study through a Laban lens.
Why am I still here? Find out more in the next blogs.