Fall-Recovery was a huge principle of Doris Humphrey’s movement. Humphrey was concerned in the foundational importance of tension and relaxation within the body. Her form of the contraction and release of muscles during the breath cycle was known as fall-recovery. The motion that happened in between these extremes was known as “the arc of life and death.” Fall and recovery requires dancers to make movement that put themselves off-balance and then to use the resulting momentum to restore control over their bodies. In her observations, she spotted the impulsive behavior like walking, standing and lying down or being born and dying. The ‘life and death’ are both positions of counterbalance, sanding up straight or lying flat on the ground. Every