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| Foreword | |
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| Laban | |
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| Some Useful Terms and Expressions | |
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| Steps | |
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| Why Plato? | |
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| Using the Five Crystals | |
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| The Cube | |
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| The Tetrahedron | |
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| The Octahedron | |
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| The Dodecahedron and Icosahedron | |
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| The Dimensional Cross and the Three Dimensional Planes | |
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| Levels and Zones | |
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| Arcs and Circles | |
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| Notation | |
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| The Movement Scales | |
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| The Dimensional Scale | |
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| The Dimensional Scale for the Right Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Right Side | |
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| The Dimensional Scale for the Left Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Left Side | |
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| The Three Crosses: the Dimensional, the Diametral and the Diagonal | |
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| The Diagonal Scale | |
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| The Diagonal Scale for the Right Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Right Side | |
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| The Diagonal Scale for the Left Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Left Side | |
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| The 'A' Scale | |
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| The 'A' Scale for the Right Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Right Side | |
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| The 'A' Scale for the Left Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Left Side | |
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| The 'B' Scale | |
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| The 'B' Scale for the Right Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Right Side | |
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| The 'B' Scale for the Left Side | |
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| The Flowing Version for the Left Side | |
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| Steeples and Volutes | |
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| Steeples | |
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| Volutes | |
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| The Missing Diagonals | |
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| Composition of the Primary Scale | |
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| Polar Triangles | |
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| The Cluster | |
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| The Girdle | |
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| The Primary Scale for the Right Side | |
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| Space, Time, Weight and Flow | |
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| Space | |
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| Time | |
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| Weight | |
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| The Body's Weight and the Pull of Gravity | |
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| The Body Carrying Weights/Kinetic Sensing | |
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| Body Resistance Pulling and Pushing | |
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| Flow | |
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| Free-flow and Bound-flow | |
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| The Eight Basic Efforts | |
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| Pressing: Direct, Sustained, Strong | |
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| Flicking: Flexible, Sudden, Light | |
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| Wringing: Flexible, Sustained, Strong | |
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| Dabbing: Direct, Sudden, Light | |
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| Slashing: Sudden, Strong, Flexible | |
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| Gliding: Sustained, Light, Direct | |
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| Punching or Thrusting: Direct, Sudden, Strong | |
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| Floating: Flexible, Sustained, Light | |
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| The Dynamosphere | |
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| Discovering the Eight Basic Efforts | |
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| Changing One Element | |
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| Changed Involving One Element | |
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| Changing Two Elements | |
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| Changing Three Elements | |
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| The Effort Scale | |
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| The Effort Graph | |
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| Effort Variations: Ranks and Grades | |
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| Shadow Movements | |
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| Conventional Gestures | |
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| The Effect of Feelings on Movement | |
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| Objective Function | |
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| Movement Sensation | |
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| The Effect of Movement on the Breath | |
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| The Effect of Emotions on the Breath | |
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| The Movement in Sound and Voice | |
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| The Vocal Mechanism | |
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| Forming Words: Vowels and Consonants | |
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| Speaking and Singing | |
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| Resonance: The Benefit of Humming | |
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| Incomplete Efforts | |
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| Mental Effort Preceding Action: Attention, Intention, Decision and Precision | |
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| The Four Drives | |
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| Action Drive | |
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| Vision Drive | |
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| Spell Drive | |
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| Passion Drive | |
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| The Meaning of Music | |
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| Playing Musical Instruments | |
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| For Those Who Act | |
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| Using the Eight Basic Efforts to Convey Character | |
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| Using the Incomplete Efforts, Modes and Drives | |
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| Using Space | |
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| Using Time | |
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| Using Weight | |
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| Using Flow | |
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| Using the Awake Mode | |
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| Using the Dream Mode | |
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| Using the Remote Mode | |
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| Using the Near Mode | |
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| Using the Stable Mode | |
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| Using the Mobile Mode | |
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| Using the Four Drives | |
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| Commedia Dell'arte | |
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| For Those Who Dance | |
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| Variation of the 'Flowing' 'A' Scale | |
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| Travelling along a Diameter | |
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| Icosahedral 3-Ring Swings | |
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| Icosahedral 5-Ring Swings | |
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| Step Sequences to Rhythmic Patterns | |
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| Choreography and Music | |
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| Doing a Dance | |
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| For Those Who Teach | |
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| Postscript | |
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| How to Make Your Own Icosahedron | |
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| Bibliography | |