Naming

Each of the resulting movement qualities, called also by Laban “The 8 Main Movement Qualities”,
is given a certain name. This name, an Action, a Verb or Noun represents the movement quality as a total and expresses consequently a certain and unique basic dynamic and rhythmical essence and therefore a particular constellation of movement factors.

Names are one of the elementary parts of a verbal language which enable us to communicate our feelings, ideas, planes, thoughts etc.    

Names are given from certain people of a group, culture, society to things in order to structure, ease and determine communication between them.
We, human beings, have ideas, build images. We develop constructions in our had over things and plans. This visual creations are pictures, images, mental convcepts that need a translation, a language that comunicates the idea, the image to the outside world. So we use words, we use movements, and sounds ect. to translate our mantal creation.

A given name to something compromises certain features, characteristics of an entity, either physical or abstract or conceptual etc. under a concept.

The term Concept comes from Latin means” grasped together” to help, organize, understand and classify the world by clustering appearances together.

But naming also lowers the spontaneous and intuitive perception of us through our senses.
of the “already known” world.
When putting a name on something the process of curiosity, of attention of attraction is cut, is in general finished.

We put the named thing in a box, and we think “I know it now”. So, what’s next ……….
From now on the named thing will be perceived by the Past, through a stored image, memory or experience and not experienced in the
-Now-, the present moment.

Therefore, focusing again and again on the body movement, is of highly importance to anew and experience repeatedly the sensing of the body movement, of movement qualities.
As if it would be always a new encounter, a re-sensing of the “already known”,
So, the movement experience comes before the given name. The anewed movement experience re-colourises, re-spices and re-nurishes the given term.