Rudolf Von Laban contributed significantly to physical education through his developments in dance, movement notation, and curricular approach. He is considered the "Father of Expressionist Dance" due to creating a dance system that became the foundation for modern dance in Europe. He also developed Labanotation, a widely used movement notation system still used today to analyze movement. Additionally, his theories of effort and distinguishing expressive from functional movement influenced physical education approaches. Finally, he advocated a curricular approach that addressed the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learners.
Rudolf Von Laban contributed significantly to physical education through his developments in dance, movement notation, and curricular approach. He is considered the "Father of Expressionist Dance" due to creating a dance system that became the foundation for modern dance in Europe. He also developed Labanotation, a widely used movement notation system still used today to analyze movement. Additionally, his theories of effort and distinguishing expressive from functional movement influenced physical education approaches. Finally, he advocated a curricular approach that addressed the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learners.
Rudolf Von Laban contributed significantly to physical education through his developments in dance, movement notation, and curricular approach. He is considered the "Father of Expressionist Dance" due to creating a dance system that became the foundation for modern dance in Europe. He also developed Labanotation, a widely used movement notation system still used today to analyze movement. Additionally, his theories of effort and distinguishing expressive from functional movement influenced physical education approaches. Finally, he advocated a curricular approach that addressed the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learners.
1. One of Rudolf von Laban's contributions to Physical Education in the
Philippines today is the development of a dance system for dancing for movement, which became the foundation or base of what we have now or the modern dance of what we have now, especially the modern dance in Europe. Every time we developed a new choreography, a new dance, or tried to learn a new dance, the components of Mr. Laban's system were integrated. That’s why he considered as the "Father of Expressionist Dance." 2. Mr. Laban also developed the Labanotation, often known as kinetography laban, which is a widely used movement notation system. Labanotation is a method of recording human movement. He created this movement system because of his interest in both architecture and movement. This system is all about combining symbols to create movements, movement components through which patterns are spelled. This system is still being developed or used nowadays (worldwide) since many people use it to analyze movement in sports such as swimming, ice skating, and so on. That is how influential the Laban system has been in physical education, especially today. 3. Mr. Laban's theory of movement, which focuses specifically on the concept of effort, is one of the works that has contributed significantly to PE today, especially to the learners. Mr. Laban called to them as "efforts of action drive." Mr. Laban formed four components of movement from eight types of effort, and within those components of movement there are two elements: direct and indirect. It is important that we understand Mr. Laban's idea since everything has a relationship, every effort or movement has a connection that we may apply or use as performers. 4. Mr. Laban was also the one who distinguished expressive movements and functional movements, which has made a significant contribution to physical education. Expressive movements are those that communicate ideas through dancing or any other forms of artistic expression such as drama, music, dance, and so on. We use expressive movements when we do things like dance, develop choreography, or dance steps. Functional movement, on the other hand, serves a purpose in helping with day-to-day tasks, such as sports and dancing. This movement is being used to complete or fulfill an action or task. It is important for a performer, especially we BPE students, to dance expressively so that we can feel the dance. Expression is important in order for us to connect with the audience and for the audience to feel connected with us also. 5. Development of a curricular aproach, they use three domains when teaching people to move or when teaching physical education, which will guide us, especially the learners. The first domain is cognitive, which focuses on intellectual skills. When we say cognitive, we mean how we think or how the students think. It focused in order for the students to learn. The next domain is the Psychomotor domain, which includes physical movement, bodily coordination, and the use of motor skills. It is more on physical movement, which skills our requires practice and is measured in terms of speed, procedures, distance, or techniques in execution. And lastly the affective domain, the target of this is more on feelings and emotion of the learner. It focuses on physical movement, which takes practice and is measured in terms of speed, procedures, distance, or execution techniques. Lastly, is the affective domain, which focuses on the learner's feelings and emotions.