Laban's Movement Analysis

Question 1

Who and why him\?

Answer 1

Rudolf Laban, dance/choreography perspective

Question 2

why?

Answer 2

• bring movement variety
• creativity
• challenge

Question 3

What is “physical litteracy”?

Answer 3

the competency of a mover under many circumstances

Question 4

What is the key point of Labans movement analysis?

Answer 4

to get away from thinging of gymnastics as just a sport

Question 5

What are the four key questions to analyzing movement?

Answer 5

1) What moves?
2) Where does it move?
3) How does it move?
4) With whom or what does it move?

Question 6

What are the three subheadings of “What moves?”?

Answer 6

1) Parts
2) Actions
3) Body Shape

Question 7

What two subheadings do “Parts”(body parts) have?

Answer 7

• contact

- non contact

Question 8

What 3 headings does “action” (independant or sequence) have?

Answer 8

• starting position
• locomotor
• ending position

Question 9

What 4 parts of “Body Shape” are there?

Answer 9

• straight or bent
• curl
• stretch
• twist

Question 10

What are the 5 subheadings of “where it moves (space”?

Answer 10

• Area
• direction
• pathway
• level (high, med, low height)
• planes (sagital, frontal, horizontal)

Question 11

What are the 4 subheadings of “How it moves - effort”?

Answer 11

• Time: sudden or sustained(long, repeated)
• Weight: strong/heavy/explosive or light/soft/smooth
• Space: straight/direct or flexible/indirect
• Flow: free & ongoing or bound & stoppable

Question 12

What 5 things could be in “With whom/what - relationships”?

Answer 12

• individual
• partner
• group
• apparatus
• music/rhythm/sound