In the Preface to Mastery of Movement, Laban states that “every sentence in this exposition is written as an incentive to personal mobility.” He wants readers to get up out of their arm chairs and MOVE.
Consequently, the second and third chapters contain descriptions of 103 exercises for the reader to perform. Systematic exploration of bodily movement is valuable, but 103??!
In the forthcoming hybrid course, I have organized the exercises around 8 themes to be used as a basis for improvisational prompts or choreographed sequences. This allows participants to put Laban’s bodily explorations in a contemporary context. And it makes time for the juicer explorations of effort that will follow.
Find out more in the next blog.