Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;

Macbeth 3,1.

The founder of the Ausdrucktanz in Germany in the 1920's, Rudolf von Laban's whole life was dedicated to the art of movement, developing his theories on the laws that govern the movement of the human body. According to his theory of „movement psychology", the Motion Factors of Weight, Space, Time and Flow express the Mental Factors of Sensing, Thinking, Intuiting and Feeling. All movements are either directed outwards (extraverted) or inwards (introverted). What Laban discovered in the movement of the human body, Carl Gustav Jung discovered in the movement of the human psyche, published in his book "Psychologische Typen". Central to Laban's theory of movement is the concept that the Motion Factors reveal the Inner Attitudes of the human mind, of which there are 6, and that all movements can be described as Working Actions, of which there are 8. The movement of the human body reaches its highest expression in dance, which creates a "world of virtual powers" (Suzanne Langer "Feeling and Form"). The movement of the human psyche reaches its highest expression in poetry. The Theatre is a virtual world which, like all the Arts, expresses Human Feeling through Symbolic Form. Laban's theories provide actor and director with a vocabulary to describe the non-discursive symbolism of the drama.