According to Rudolf Laban's Action Analysis and Recording and Action Education System Theory, the father of modern dance theory, combined with the essence of China traditional culture, in the best period of children's mental development and growth, through the operation and experience of actions, they unconsciously formed a good mentality and behavior habits, and achieved the result of integration of body and mind, internal and external integration, and integration of knowledge and practice.
Laban's dance (movement) education concept adheres to the unity of internal and external, body and mind, which is similar to China's traditional learning;
Laban said: "children and primitive people look at the world through physical intuition, that is, through the actual experience of the body";
Laban said: "We can prove that children and primitive people have two talents: physical movements and natural love";
Laban said: "It is not difficult for a naive brain to regard action as life."
Laban also said: "The naive brain has an instinctive impulse to act";
These words are not just for children; In fact, in the early days of mankind, just like children, they did not refuse to act. Only by living in the' pure' spiritual world can people get real relaxation and happiness. Through Laban's action education concept, we can help people find their true selves and let us live truly and simply.
There is a saying in The Analects: "Listen to what he says and watch what he does." Explain the authenticity and identifiability of the behavior. Behavior and action belong to the category of action language and action culture. If dance training is regarded as a "behavior" discipline, it is logical for children to achieve the effect of mental training through their favorite dance forms.
At present, Laban's action analysis method is also used in dance therapy which is very popular in the United States and Taiwan Province Province. Dance therapy was born because of the combination of modern dance art and psychology. Marian Chace and mary white House were pioneers in dance therapy. They pioneered dance therapy on the east and west coasts of the United States in the 1930s and 1950s respectively. Subsequently, the three main characters continued to develop dance therapy in the United States. They are Trudi Schoop (impromptu dance), Lijjan Espenak (European training combined with Adler's deep psychotherapy) and Rudolf Laban (Laban action analysis). From 65438 to 0966, the establishment of American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) marked the recognition of the professional status of dance therapy. Laban, in particular, introduced scientific ideas and methods into dance therapy. Today, ADTA has developed into an international organization with 1 200 members in more than 20 countries. The association currently owns its own academic magazine, American Journal of Dance Therapy, which is published by Kluwer, a world-renowned scientific publishing house. Dance therapy now has a doctoral education program in the United States (see CNN reporting that doctoral students experience the art of therapy).
From 1960, Judith Kestenberg, a child psychiatrist (1910/998), cooperated with the Sands Point Sports Research Group to study the nonverbal behaviors and action expression patterns of infants, children and adults. Based on the research results of Laban, Lamb and Irmgard Bertenieff on action analysis from the perspective of development and psychodynamics, a [Kestenberg sports profile] was developed, and the accuracy of the [Kestenberg sports profile] was verified by anna Floyd's meta-psychological profile 1965 in the UK. From 65438 to 0987, Susan Loman, who studied with Gustavo for eight years, integrated all the training of Gustavo Action Analysis System into the dance psychotherapy course of Antioch/Negroponte School. Janet Kestenberg Amighi, the daughter of Judy Gerstenberg, also taught the recording and analysis of Sternberg Motion Analysis System at hahnemann University in 1990s.