In The Thinking Body, Mabel Ellsworth Todd observes that “behavior is rarely rational; it is habitually emotional.” She continues, “Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man’s whole body records his emotional thinking.”
From Laban’s perspective muscle patterns are effort patterns. And effort patterns follow organic rules of mutation, modified by individual taste and experience.
What are your habitual effort patterns? Find out more in the MoveScape Center workshop, Effort “Mutation,” beginning in October.