In his final book, Lamb noted: “The Seven Creative Concepts were formulated in the years immediately following Laban’s death in 1958, when I was focusing on finding a workable framework incorporating everything I had learnt during my apprenticeship with him.” Here is how Lamb delineated these creative concepts.
- Effort Factors and Shape Qualities relate to a three-stage decision making sequence, emphasizing process as distinct from content.
- Posture-Gesture Mergers reveal the relatively enduring features of a person’s movement pattern (as distinct from transitory features).
- Effort and Shape factors can be correlated respectively with Assertion (applying energy to make things happen) and with Perspective (positioning oneself with respect to the broader environment to get results).
- Effort and Shape affinities and disaffinities influence face-to-face interactions and the sharing of decision-making processes.
- There are two types of flow: Effort Flow and Shape Flow.
- Crystallization of the Frameworks of Management Action and Interaction.
- Effort and Shape Flow diminish during childhood while the Effort and Shaping of movement are being developed.