Bartenieff begins by explaining that Labanotation can capture in every detail “the path and design of a faulty movement,” providing the physical therapist with precise information about what needs to be corrected.
However, as physical therapists are becoming more concerned the emotional elements that characterize biological movement, Labanotation is found wanting.
“No longer can the therapist depend upon a system of notation which deals with quantity, with architectural structure and design,” Bartenieff asserts. Instead the therapist “must turn to a system which tells how movement takes place.”
That system is Effort Notation.
Find out more in the next blog.