How Santa Keeps His Memory Sharp

MoveScape Center (MSC):  By most calculations, Santa, you are several centuries old.  Do you experience any memory problems?

Santa Clause (SC): As a matter of fact, I have trouble keeping the darned reindeers’ names straight.  I have keep calling out to them all night long – it’s embarrassing if I make mistakes.

MSC:  How do you cope?

SC:  I look for a pattern.  Take Rudolf Laban’s Dimensional Scale:  up, down, across, open, backward, forward.  I practice it in retrograde – forward, backward, open, across, down, up – like I’m playing a musical scale in ascending then descending order.

MSC:  And??

SC:  I do the same thing with the reindeer.  They are used to hearing me cry– Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen.  I practice backwards – works like a charm!

MSC:  You certainly have found a unique way to apply Laban’s ideas, Santa!