The Laban Sourcebook
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The Laban Sourcebook

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The Laban Sourcebook

About this book

Rudolf Laban (1879 – 1958) was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found an extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to drama, education and therapy. Laban believed that you can understand about human beings by observing how they move, and devised two complimentary methods of notating the shape and quality of movements.

The Laban Sourcebook offers a comprehensive account of Laban's writings. It includes extracts from his five books in English and from his four works in German, written in the 1920s and translated here for the first time.

This book draws on archival research in England and Germany to chart the development of Laban's groundbreaking ideas through a variety of documents, including letters, articles, transcripts of interviews, and his unpublished Effort and Recovery. It covers:



  • The beginning of his career in Germany and Switzerland in the 1910s.



  • His astonishing rise to fame in Germany in the 1920s as a dance teacher, choreographer and creator of public dance events.



  • Following his move to England in 1938, the application of his ideas to drama, education, industry, and therapy.

Each extract has a short preface providing contextual background, and highlighting and explaining key terms. Passages have been selected and are introduced by many of the world's leading Laban scholars.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781136979477
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Dance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Editor’s Introduction
  13. 1. Dance Activities and Schools, 1912–1917, Ascona and Zurich
  14. 2. The World of the Dancer (1920)
  15. 3. Gymnastics and Dance for Children (1926)
  16. 4. Gymnastics and Dance (1926)
  17. 5. Choreography (1926)
  18. 6. Texts on Laban’s Choreographies: Gaukelei (1923) and Titan (1927)
  19. 7. The Choreographic Institute Laban (1926–1929) and Laban’s Presentation at the First Dancers’ Congress, Magdeburg (1927)
  20. 8. The Pageant of the Trades and Crafts, Vienna, June 1929
  21. 9. Laban and Movement Notation
  22. 10. Rudolf Laban’s Dance Films
  23. 11. Choreutics, Written in 1938, Published 1966
  24. 12. Laban’s Concept of Effort and his Work in the 1940s and 1950s
  25. 13. The Art of Movement in Education, Work and Recreation (Mid-1940s)
  26. 14. Effort (1947)
  27. 15. Answers to Ten Questions on Industrial Rhythm (Early 1950s)
  28. 16. Modern Educational Dance (1948)
  29. 17. Shadow Moves
  30. 18. The Mastery of Movement on the Stage (1950)
  31. 19. Effort and Recovery (Early 1950s)
  32. 20. Excerpts from Effort and Recovery and Notes Taken from Withymead (Early 1950s)
  33. 21. The Harmony of Movement (Early 1950s)
  34. 22. Themes and Contradictions in Laban’s Work and Thinking
  35. Glossary of Terms as used in Movement Psychology
  36. Glossary of German Terms
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index