“The dancer moves,” Laban wrote, “not only from place to place, but also from mood to mood.” Laban recognized that movement is physical and psychological, a phenomenon involving the whole human being.
Beyond this, however, Laban suggests that movement practices can serve as way to unify body, mind, and spirit. He coined two terms for such practices – “choreutics” (addressing the movement from place to place) and “eukinetics” (delineating the movement from mood to mood).
Laban defines “choreutics” as “the art, or the science, dealing with the analysis and synthesis of movement.” He goes on to suggest that “through its investigation and various exercises choreutics attempts to stop the progress of disintegrating into disunity.”
Beyond this, Laban suggests that movement “can have a regenerating effect on our individual and social forms of life.” Find out more in the next blog.