Alongside other international presenters, Karen Studd gave an online talk ‘The Developmental progression in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System and how Change is a Constant’ in May.
Laban Situado / Laban Located was organised by Ana Patricia Farfán and Ligia Tourinho, Universidad de Las Américas Puebla.
Development and Evolution characterize life — Change is Constant
Developmental Progression is a foundational pattern that characterizes life.
Here below is what was found in a simple AI response to a google search for “the phenomenon of change”:
The phenomenon of change encompasses any observable event or transformation in the natural world, including social structures, individual behavior, and even the physical state of matter. It’s a constant and pervasive aspect of reality, affecting everything from the smallest particle to the largest galaxy. Change can be gradual or sudden, and it can be driven by a multitude of factors, such as human actions, natural processes, or even the passage of time.
Things that drive change:
Progress – Seeking improvement. Change happens because humans want to improve their condition and apply ingenuity and good problem-solving to create progress.
· Process and Product – Change both results in, as well as is driven by, increased specialization and complexity.
· Technology – Change happens because humans are motivated to solve problems, which requires the creation of new technologies, which in turn drive progress and social change.
· Conflict – there is in the duality of Change and Constant an inherent tension
· Power – this also relates to the tension in the dynamic balance of Change and Constant
· Evolution – Change happens when the physical environment changes, and organisms adapt in response to those changes.
Changes in LBMS – specifically the differentiation and explication of movement expanding the micro in service of macro understanding
Macro and Micro perspectives
· Overarching patterns – Themes are not limited to BF they can be found in all Components as well as larger patterns that are the intersections of the Components
· The system itself reveals the process of developmental progression
· The Reframing of BESS Components to B Sp Sh E
· Body – – Flowsensing and Weightsensing and the Foundation Phrase and linked to the developmental progression of Movement
· Additions to BBAs: Vocalization, Connecting, Interacting
· Space – – the Duals of the Platonic Spatial forms including explication of the Dual tetrahedrons and its relation to the Cube and the expansion of the map to include Dodecahedron
· Shape – – the foundations of Concave/Convex and Gather/Scatter in again understanding the foundation of this components and the developmental progression
· Effort – – avoiding limitations of the micro perspective understanding Effort – -the Constellation as more significant and the Phrasing as more significant to understanding the Patterns of Effort. Moving away from the overused Action Drive Model and exploring the transformation Drives – – – and seeing the process of transform as it can occur with each factor. Noting how science and all bodies of knowledge impacts how we understand Effort – – for example Space Effort and attention.