My Experience With Embodying Concepts From Analysis

Above is a video of my first "analysis study" that I performed as an assignment in the analysis course offered at The Ohio State University Department of Dance. For this assignment I took a total of three "warm up" combinations from my contemporary movement practice with Edward Taketa. I linked them together, both right and left sides, to create about a two minute long series of movement. The goal of this assignment was to show the different body, effort and space qualities that are a part of the Laban Movement Analysis System.

In order to successfully complete this assignment, I did each warm up exercise first to the right side and then to left side. Each time I did a warm up exercise to the right side, I chose to embody the indirect, light, and free flow qualities that are a part of the Laban Movement Analysis System. Therefore, as you watch this video you will see that the first half of each exercise is very delicate and "prettier" then the second half. For the second half, or the left side of each exercise, I embodied the direct, strong, and bound flow qualities of the Laban Movement Analysis System. These qualities are the direct opposite of the qualities that I embodied in the first half of each exercise, so you will see that these movements are much more sharp, and hard hitting. This assignment was very helpful to me while learning about these qualities because I got to actually know them in my body as opposed to reading about them on paper.