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| 25th Biennial Conference of ICKL | |
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Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea, Mexico July 29 (Arrival Day) - August 5 (Departure Day) 2007 |
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SESSIONS Workshop A dance with the language of Laban BORGHÄLL, Johan - Denmark This workshop is an investigation in the understandings of the concepts of Rudolf Laban. One fascinating aspect of the movement language of Laban lies in the utility of his concepts. In dance, acting, sports and movement therapy, we use his concepts to describe what we experience, and become aware of how we express ourselves. We can agree whether a movement is sustained or sudden, symmetric or asymmetric, in big or small volume. But where is the pivot, the point when we must say that it changes from one to the other, when the movement is no longer sustained, but sudden. When is the movement no longer sustained, symmetric and big volume? It sounds maybe a bit of playing with words, but fundamental for us who use Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). Laban, as we know, believed in the balance of opposites, which also was manifested in his personality. One movement he was serious and other times silly, sometimes calculating sometimes naïve. Sometimes insecure and searching for security, other times expanding and taking big risks. Democratic, flexible and open at times, an approach that could transform into an authoritarian and closed attitude. Through structured movement sequences we will try to find out the pivot, the sensed border between the pools of difference of Labans movement language. You will be presented to ten cases. Together we will dance them, investigate them, and get acquainted with how we understand the concepts of Laban. The idea of this workshop is not to find and define the pivot between the concepts, but to sense and reflect on the borders of the language of Laban. Johan Borghäll - Associated professor at the University of Southern Denmark and teacher of Body Expression at the actor school in Odense, Denmark. Writer of books about Movement Communication, Salsa, Capoeira, Theory of Education and Body Language.
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