“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare writes, “and all the men and women merely players.” Mabel Ellsworth Todd concurs: “The postures of dramatic tradition crystallize the theory of actors. Guilt, craft, vision, meanness, ecstasy, and lure appear in certain arrangements of the arms, hands, shoulders, neck, and legs.”
More than poses and body attitudes, Rudolf Laban considers movement to be the basis of all the performing arts. He devoted a whole book to extending the expressive possibilities of bodily movement and dynamic effort for stage performers.
Mastery of Movement is the result. In April and May I will lead a hybrid course focused on this fascinating book. Find out more in the next blogs.