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"'Irmgard Bartenieff has a profound knowledge of the human body and how it moves. I am delighted that this will now be made available to many more people.'." -- George Balanchine of Director, New York City Ballet "'Irmgard Bartenieff's pioneering work in the multiple applications of Labananalysis has had a transforming influence on many areas of movement training. Her careful and detailed development of the spatial principles into active corrective work has illuminated and altered the training of people as varied as dancers, choreographers, physical therapists, movement and dance therapists, and psychotherapists. Anthropologists and non-verbal communication researchers have found their world view necessarily altered by her fundamental innovations. The field of body/mind work will need to adapt to include her clear working through of basic principles.'." -- Kayla Kazahn Zalk of President, American Dance Guild
Carving Shapes in SpaceThe Kinesphere, Body Parts and Spatial DirectionsThe Kinesphere The body is a three-dimensional structure. It has length, width, and depth—a length axis, a width axis, and a depth axis. By extending the farthest reaches of the length, width and depth of the body in the upright position, a sense of the three-dimensional space around it is created. We call that reach space around the body the kinesphere. Gravity exerts the downward, earth pull, and with its opposite, upward, skyward pull, the length dimension along a vertical axis in space can be identified. Maintaining that vertical axis, we can also move forward/ backward in the depth dimension along a sagittal axis and we can move limbs to the side or across to the other side in the width dimension along a horizontal axis in space. Each move elicits a particular spatial experience, the feeling of a pull in space that is delineated by its axis.
