In The Future of the Body, Esalen founder Michael Murphy writes: “The inexorable advance of athletic records provides dramatic evidence that the human body has great potential for several kinds of development.” Rudolf Laban concurs, noting that in every bodily movement “both infinity and eternity are hidden.”
Nevertheless, Laban was fully aware that human movement is not infinite. It is bound by certain limits. He was also aware that limitations are not just restrictive, they are also creative.
Laban spent much of his career as a dancer, observer, and movement theorist identifying the underlying factors that limit human movement potential.
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