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Space Harmony or Choreutics is a movement theory and practice created by Rudolf Laban.
Laban, who layed the foundation for Laban Movement Analysis – a method that is used to objectively observe, analyze, record and understand movement, on both body-level, as well as in dynamics and in relation to the environment – was very much interested in space. He had a mathematic mind and saw form in everything. Laban saw universal patterns in human movement and understood that there were cultural and individual patterns, but in the end he was more inclined toward clarifying the universal of human movement.
From this he developed a theory and movement practice, called Space Harmony. Laban used the Platonic Solids to illuminate and clarify the Spatial patterns that he observed in human movement. Linking the points within the different forms, following the natural 'spatial pulls' to connect the one point to the other, he came to specific movement Scales that became movement exercises in which one moves through a Platonic Solid in a predefined way.
Moving these Scales opens up the body in space, enlarges spatial awareness and at the same time balances the body spatially. This is why his space theory is called Space Harmony.
