Kinesphere, Scaffolding
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(Rev. from J.S.Longstaff 1996) The concept of a "kinesphere" was defined by Rudolf Laban (1966, p. 10) as the space which can be reached by easily extended limbs. This concept has been used widely and variously described such as "gestural space" and "zone of reach" (Salter, 1977, p. 54). |
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- the famous statement that Movement is, so to speak, living architecture (Laban, 1966, p. 5), Laban (1966, p. 124) regards the scaffolding much like a map in that trace-forms following the simple lines of the scaffolding can be represented mentally without great difficulty. In this same way, the concept of kinespheric scaffolding is virtually identical with psychological concepts of "conceptual networks", "grids" or "cognitive maps" of body space which we build and store in our memory to assist in learning, remembering, recalling and controlling movements (see Longstaff, 1996 sec. IIIC). In choreutics the five regular polyhedra are used most often to model the structure of the kinesphere. These represent the most symmetrical and regular divisions of three-dimensional space and so serve as the first-level of analysis of spatial forms. |
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(2006) J.S.Longstaff
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