Introduction to Laban's Space Harmony 

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Speaker: Mark Jarecke, FOUR32C
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Mark Jarecke introduces the audience to Rudolf Laban's concepts of Space Harmony. This movement lab takes participants through Laban's systems of spatial architecture and effort quality affinities as well as experimentation with movement scales through three dimensional platonic solid metaphors.
0:00 Introduction to space harmony
0:07 Rudolf Laban
1:35 Irmgard Bartenieff
2:07 Context: observation, visualization, documentation, embodiment
3:04 Laban movement analysis
4:50 Body
6:26 Shape
6:41 Space - 1
7:25 Space - 2
8:07 Effort - 1
9:58 Effort - 2
10:47 Effort - 1
10:56 Effort - 2
12:27 Notation
13:35 Affinities in effort & space = Space harmony
14:51 Platonic solids - 1
15:20 Platonic solids - 2
15:49 Dimensions
16:11 Efforts
16:39 Dimensional scale
20:57 Platonic solids - 2
21:41 Dimensions
21:42 Efforts
21:45 Dimensional scale
21:54 Octahedron
22:18 Cube
23:14 Dimensional scale
24:25 Octahedron
24:27 Cube
24:50 Action scale
26:01 Dimension
26:15 Dimensions: Vertical dimension = Vertical pull