Name/TitleSWKFA Bulletin
About this objectSlim booklet with yellowish cover titled 'Scottish Women's Keep Fit Association Bulletin 1983'. Begins with message from the chairman, Mary C. Hunter, which notes that this is the first bulletin produced after an absence of eight years. Followed with details about the SWKFA Executive Committee and Branch Office Bearers, and branch reports from Ayrshire, Borders, Central, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Glasgow, Grampian, Highland, Lothian and Tayside. Also includes articles about national courses, a calendar of events for 1983/4, minutes from the 30th AGM (1982), plus features titled '50+ And All To Play For', 'History of a Keep Fit Career', 'The Scottish Sports Council', 'Keeping Fit in Africa' and a short section with recipes, puzzles, etc.
Fully digitised (68 pages)
MakerScottish Women's Keep Fit Association
Date Made1983
Period1980s
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 211 x W: 150 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsHealth & well-being
Subject and Association Keywordsfitness, exercise
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's organisations
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://keepfit.org.uk/about-us:
The Keep Fit Association is a long-established body from 1956 and is dedicated to the provision of safe and effective exercise, movement and dance. KFA exercise is based on Rudolf Laban’s principles providing an holistic workout with functional fitness through creative choreography.
Rudolf Laban’s ultimate aim was that movement was for all and that dance should give joy to people through moving together; an aim that the Keep Fit Association both embrace and promote in all that they do.
In the early 1960’s, the Keep Fit Association declared its training policy and has been offering classes for recreation, based on Laban’s analysis of movement, ever since.
Movement and dance ideas developed through the use of Laban’s analysis are limitless. It does not presuppose one style of movement and cannot be totally encompassed by one person. By considering the body as an instrument, using pathways, rhythms, and creating relationships, we offer ourselves the opportunity to become a whole person and our teachers offer that opportunity to their class members. Rudolf Laban’s study of movement, to which he devoted his whole life, is essentially concerned with a person in relation to the world and the people around them.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2019-15-1-6
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved