On Motion Analysis: Understanding Movement

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On Motion AnalysisUnderstanding Movement

• Yunyu Wang
• Professor
• Drama and Dance
• Colorado College

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How Do We Read Movement

• Labanotation
• Laban Movement Analysis

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Labanotation
Sample of Labanotation total 9 music counts
movement Yunyu Wang

• Body
• Time
• Level
• Direction

Directions

Body Parts
Body Parts
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Laban Movement Analysis/LMA

• Body
• Effort
• Shape
• Space Harmony

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Body 6 Human Development Patterns

• breath
• head-tail
• body half upper and lower
• body half left and right
• diagonal
• core

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8 Efforts
Flow Effort Free (????,????) Bound (??,??,?????)
Space Effort Direct (??????) Indirect (???,???????)
Weight Effort Strong (???????) Light (??,????)
Time Effort Sudden (??,??,???) Sustain (??,??,???)
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3 Shape

• Shape Flow
• Directional
• Shaping

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Space Harmony

• The Body Kinesphere near, mid.,far
• 6 points in body space up/down, side,
  front/back
• two-dimensional door, wheel, table
• Octahedron, cube, icosahedrons, tetrahedron
• scales steeples, volutes, A, B,
  peripheral/transverse 3-rings, axis, primary,
  girdle, etc

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Body Kinesphere
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6 points in body space
H
B
L
R
F
D
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Octahedron, cube, icosahedrons, tetrahedron
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The End

• In observing a movement we must visualize all the
  intermediary stages of its unfolding.