Shall We Dance, Among the Affects

• Script Question to Mssrs. Nathanson and Kelly by Chuck Yopst, S.S.T.I. Member, 1/4/99
  • Changing Scripts: the poorly impeded interest-excitment version by Jonathan L. Grindlinger, M.D., 1/7/99
    
    

6:04 p.m. C.S.T., 9 January 1999

Dear Jonathan,

Thank you for your reply.

Your reply, I think, is very helpful, it is great!

You write of the orchestra as a metaphor.

All of this also resembles, to me, dance choreography. Good, since I am a dance/movement psychotherapist, among other professions.

Dance is analyzed and recorded by, among other systems, Rudolph Laban's Labanotation. Important factors of this are weight (intensity), space (direction), time (combinations of weight and space), and flow or energy. Add to this the context of geometric shapes and directions. There are many combinations.

Labanotation helps to see where the energy is, what patterns it is taking, where it is flowing and what it expresses. The same qualities you use in therapy are paralleled by the compositon of choreography in dance.

Of the Scripts, there may be a number of them that are used much more than all the rest put together.

I will think about this more, and in time get back to you.

Again, many thanks. And thanks to Brian Lynch also for his reflections, his being a neighbor near me in Mount Prospect.

Yours, Chuck Yopst at Cmpssn@aol.com (Compassion less vowels plus two thousand)

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