Laban Eight Efforts for Musicians

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Have you ever written the words "sing", "flow", "connect" or even "dance" in your music to make a passage come alive? โฃ
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As musicians, we are given the opportunity to tell stories in and through the movement of sound. Working with and teaching students how to use such a temporary and fleeting medium often finds me reaching across disciplines to explain how a sound should be created. โฃ
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I (Ixi here) frequently ask my students to "draw" a shape, "dance" a waltz, or "move" like a robot. So when I was recently introduced to a method and language for describing, visualizing and interpreting human movement, I started using it to describe sound in motion. โฃ
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It's called the Laban Eight Efforts, used by actors and dancers to study "effort actions". It's astonishing the ways we can study the body's movements in space and time -- and then correlate it to sound. โฃActor Sasha Olinick introduced this concept to our Thrive students and they were loving it! 
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Using a combination of space, weight and time to create a flow of action events, you can divide movements to 8 specific motions: ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ต, ๐˜ธ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด, ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฉ, ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ and ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ. โฃ


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๐—ช๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ? ๐€๐ง๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž, ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?

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