Laban's Choreosophical Model Nicolas Salazar Sutil Movement Visualisation Analysis and the Graphic Media Approach to Dance Studies

RESUMEN: This paper explores the impact Ridolf Laban´s graphic approach has had on movement analysis and an analytical approach to dance-movement based on an understanding of human motion as a collection of fixed points in a movement continuum. Central to thid approach is the idea that movement can be captured graphically for its analysis via different techniques of graphic representation: including drawing, 3D modelling, graph, diagrams and notation. The article also argues that graphic models play a key role in the development of Laban´s theory of harmonic space. Based on a series of geometric and topological models Laban Was able to develop a material method as part of his creative research on movement analysis. My claim is that Laban´s graphic approach encourages the use of visual media and technologies of graphic inscription as inventive methods for the better understanding of movement, which is why Laban´s thinking can be adequately recinceptualised using technologies like video and motion capture. As a unit of analysis, this article explores one of Laban´s most fundamental and yet least known material models: the spheric from. I argue that this medel present us with a much broader understanding of Laban´s movement analysis as a form of material thinking , and not only within the context of dance-training, but as part of a vision of the dance that complete in its philosophical perspectives, and which Laban called choreosophy. This article finishes with a brief examination of C8´s choreography "Solid Sense" (performed in 2011), which in the author´s opinion exemplifies, as creative research, some of the central preoccupations of Laban´s choreosophical studies.