Saturday 3 May 2014

Efforts Associated With Their Movements

To understand the many efforts associated with each archetype's movements you should see the table below, which basically shows the Laban efforts. 
So as you can see these are the laban efforts, but the question is which efforts are associated with the archetype's movements? The efforts associated with the movements of the:

  • The protagonist's  are press, wring and slash. This is because the protagonist is the hero therefore he is elegant and has sustained movements, which are direct and strong. he also has indirect movements at times as he can be arrogant, foolish and can be forced into a bad position where he has to do whatever he can to to get out of it 


  • The Deuteragonist are punch, press, flick and float. This is because the Deuteragonist is either the side kick or the lancer therefore when he is close to the protagonist he is sophisticated, strong and has sustained movements, which are direct. When the Deuteragonist is against the Protagonist he becomes unacceptable, bad and imperfect, which causes him to have sudden strong or light movements, which most of time is indirect.


  • The Tritagonist are float, dab, glide and flick. This because the Tritagonist is basically the innocent or caretaker type of character. Since he is mostly calm, and usually wants peace he has light sustained movements which are direct, but if he caused a tragedy or is involved in one he can have indirect movements, which are sudden.

So overall these are the efforts associated with each archetype's movements and these efforts are mostly based on the archetypes the common characters represent of the the greek tragedy mask form.



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