Choreutics is often referred to as “space harmony.” But there is also effort harmony, and three of the chapters in Laban’s masterwork Choreutics address consonant and dissonant effort sequences.
These effort sequences, however, are easily overlooked, because when Laban wrote Choreutics he had not yet invented effort notation. He amends direction symbols with a small “s” to represent effort qualities and combinations of qualities. Consequently, effort sequences can be mistaken for spatial sequences….
That is why Choreutics needs decoding. Find out more in my upcoming hybrid course sponsored by LIMS, Decoding Laban’s Choreutics.