04.01.2026

"I am divided On the one hand... On the other hand... I listen to both sides of myself..."

17.12.2025

"I want, I will. I can't, I can. I struggle to claim my own power and use it. I push away to make my space safe. I reach out to get forward toward my goal..."

04.11.2025

"I become differentiated ...I am an individual with my own spine I ground myself in my own sphere through yielding and pushing ...I reach and pull, giving attention to my outer environment..."

16.10.2025

"Coming into my innermost core, all parts of me find relationship. I experience support within and life lines of connection through which I pulsate and radiate bright with internal energy..."

09.09.2025

"BREATH ...One with the life giving universe ...One with the nature's fluidity ...filling and emptying in an ever on-going cycle ...being nourished, getting rid of what is no longer needed..."

15.08.2025

Today we want to share a quote from "The Language of Movement - A Guidebook to Choreutics" of Rudolf Laban annotated and edited by Lisa Ullmann: "Wherever the body stays or moves, it occupies space and is surrounded by it. We must distinguish between space in general and the space within the reach of the body..."

07.07.2025

Today we want to share a second quote from "The Mastery of Movement" of Rudolf Laban revised by Lisa Ullmann: "In order to discern the mechanics of motion within living movement in which purposeful control of the physical happening is at work, it is useful to give a name to the inner function originating such movement. The word used here for this purpose is EFFORT..."

10.06.2025

Today we want to share the continuity of the quote from "Making Connections - Total Body Integration through Bartenieff Fundamentals" by Peggy Hackney: "... Each new pattern challenges the individual in new physical ways and makes possible additional development in psychological process as well..."

25.05.2025

Today we want to share a second quote from the book "Making Connections - Total Body Integration through Bartenieff Fundamentals" by Peggy Hackney: "Functional capacities underlie expressive capabilities... We need to be able to rely on the foundations laid by the early patterns of movement development to support brain development and more detailed expressivity in the Body, in Effort, in Shape, and in Space later on...

15.04.2025

Today we want to share a second quote from the book "Body movement - Coping with the environment" by Irmgard Bartenieff with Dori Lewis: "The organization of inner energy impulses is part of all human behavior. [...] The expressiveness of the Effort elements was described by Laban as indicative of stages of the inner state of mind which prepare the mover for a sequence...