Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, characterized Rudolf Laban as a “Wagnerian innovator, dedicated to quasi-mystical attempts to enforce the unique supremacy of movement as movement.” This was meant to be a criticism, but it could be viewed differently.
Laban understood that movement is everywhere. “An unsophisticated mind has no difficulty in comprehending movement as life,” he wrote, adding, “Children and the man of primitive ages see the world through the bodily perspective, that is through physical experiences. They see the unity of all existence.”
Movement Pattern Analyst Warren Lamb found that most people accept the ubiquity of movement. But when he went on to explain that movement can be studied, he also found that most people lost interest.
Find out what they also lost in the next blog.