“You must not think of dance as steps,” Rudolf Laban once told a group of student actors. “Dance is meaningful movement. You can dance with your eyebrows. When I have taught you, you will be able to dance with any part of your body.’’
The acting students were skeptical, or course. They thought that dance was frivolous, not serious. Laban, however, had spent a lifetime investigating not only the physical aspects of dance, but also its mental, emotional, and social dimensions. He saw dancing as an activity involving the whole person; he understood that dancing brings together body and mind, self and other.
Now contemporary science is corroborating Laban’s observations with evidence based research. Find out more in the following blogs.