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Marie C Percy

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Tag: Rudolf Laban

I Love a Good Laban Pun

March 16, 2015March 16, 2015Leave a comment

Towards the end of a unit in the Freshman Movement for Actors class I came into the studio one morning to find these little jewels on the board. Apparently all the work studying BEAs, dimensions, diagonals, and basic shaping concepts as vocabulary to create physical variety while playing actions is sinking in. Not quite right … Continue reading I Love a Good Laban Pun

A-Scale Three Rings

February 3, 2015June 1, 2015Leave a comment

I painted this a couple of months ago. The design is based on the volutes of the A-scale. I drew three rectangles to represent the three planes in the Icosahedron (vertical, sagittal, and horizontal). I then marked where the corners were on my circle. The I gently sketched one volute at a time, and I … Continue reading A-Scale Three Rings

Function vs. Expression for Freshman

January 22, 2015Leave a comment

I played a fun little trick on my Freshman movement class this week. My first class of the Spring semester is on the theme of function/expression. I spend a lot of time in their first semester in the Expressive world- working on their imagination, ability to following impulses, and play. In the second semester I … Continue reading Function vs. Expression for Freshman

Knots and Effort

January 11, 2015Leave a comment

      I had a magnificent time about a month ago at a workshop with the fabulous Carol Lynne-Moore on advanced Space Theory. The picture above is a shot of some of my notes from the workshop. During her time in the Laban archives in London she made a very exciting discovery about Knots … Continue reading Knots and Effort

132 Icosahedral Pathways

April 25, 2014Leave a comment

Finally finished! A poster that summarizes all of the pathways in the Icosahedron by pathway type.

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