This year I set out to challenge my own understanding of Laban’s Choreutics. I learn best when I teach others. Thus my own Red Thread journey began in March with the Tetra seminar “Decoding Laban’s Choreutics,” a reading and correspondence course. This close look at Part I of Laban’s mysterious masterpiece yielded new insights into the depth and scope of his theories of human movement.
In July, with the Octa workshop, “Bringing Choreutics to Life,” I took these theories forward into practice. During this intimate three-day workshop, we reviewed well-known Choreutic sequences to illuminate their rational structure and to explore how Laban’s ideas can be transformed into rich kinesthetic and expressive experiences, integrating body and mind.
In December, the journey of discovery continues with the Ico workshop, “Advanced Space Harmony: New Choreutic Forms for Movement Invention.” In this two-day seminar in New York City, Cate Deicher and I will be teaching little known Space Harmony forms from Part II of Choreutics. Intriguing forms such as mixed seven rings, five rings, tilted planes, diminished three rings, snakes, and shears challenge mind and body, providing rich ideas for movement invention.