This video is great, inspiring and informative in a complete and practical way. I could really relate and understand. I did study laban but sometimes It can be a bit heady to transfer this knowledge and this video was very useful.
this is a really great video to watch, and very helpful in terms of the movement, on a very cool journey into creative arts therapy so im excited to be learning about this in particular and how i can relate this to psychology x
Tony Ofarrell It's mostly used in the arts, i.e. dancing, acting, and 3D animation where having the language to deconstruct and describe movement is important. It's also apparently used in some therapies but I don't know enough about that to say if it's actually useful or not
What's the point of it if it leads to self-conscious movement and imprisons performers in a sphere? I feel like this makes a performer a passenger in a dimensionally oriented machine, while what I want from my actors is to be their body and have movement be a necessary consequence of the meaning they are trying to express.
Maybe the point is to increase a performer's awareness and skill so that they have more tools to put to their craft. If you were to ask beginning language students to perform a play in Russian they might also feel self conscious. I don't see that the sphere is involved at all. Everything takes practice.
