The Laban Sourcebook - Dick McCaw (Editor)
KORTE INHOUD
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 comprenhensive 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 ground-breaking ideas through a variety of documents, including letters, articles, transcripts of interviews and his unpublished 'Effort and Recovery'.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, vhoreographer and creator of public dance events.
-following ...
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 comprenhensive 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 ground-breaking ideas through a variety of documents, including letters, articles, transcripts of interviews and his unpublished 'Effort and Recovery'.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, vhoreographer and creator of public dance events.
-following ...
