Rudolf Laban

Born	December 15, 1879(1879-12-15) Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Bratislava, Slovakia)
Died	July 1, 1958(1958-07-01) (aged 78) Weybridge, United Kingdom

Rudolf Laban (Rudolf von Laban, Rezső Lábán de Váraljas, Lábán Rezső, Lábán Rudolf) was a dance artist and theorist, notable as one of the pioneers of modern dance in Europe. His work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, Labanotation (Kinetography Laban), other more specific developments in dance notation and the evolution of many varieties of Laban Movement Study. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of dance and fencing.

Literature

Monographs by Laban

• Die Welt des Tänzers, Stuttgart: Walter Seifert, 1920; 3rd ed., 1926. (in German)
• Choreographie: Erstes Heft, Jena: Eugen Diedrichs, 1926. (in German)
• Gymnastik und Tanz, Oldenburg: Stalling, 1926. (in German)
• Des Kindes Gymnastik und Tanz, Oldenburg: Stalling, 1926. (in German)
• Schriftanz: Methodik, Orthographie, Erläuterungen, Vienna: Universal Edition, 1928. (in German)
• Ein Leben fuer den Tanz, Dresden: Carl Riessner, 1935. Autobiography. (in German)
  • A Life for Dance: Reminiscences, trans. Lisa Ullmann, Princeton: Princeton Books, 1975.
• The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, London: Macdonald and Evans, 1940; 2nd ed. as The Mastery of Movement, ed. Lisa Ullmann, 1960; 4th ed., 1980.
  • Kunst der Bewegung, trans. F. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven, 1988. (in German)
• with Charles Lawrence Federick, Effort, London: Macdonald and Evans, 1947.
• Modern Educational Dance, London: Macdonald and Evans, 1948.
• Principles of Dance and Movement Notation, London: Macdonald and Evans, 1956.
• Choreutics, ed. Lisa Ullmann, London: Macdonald and Evans, 1966.
• A Vision of Dynamic Space, ed. Lisa Ullmann, London: Falmer Press, with Laban Archives, 1984.

On Laban

• Ann Hutchinson, Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement, New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1954.
• Ann Hutchinson, Labanotation or Kinetography Laban, 2nd ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
• Vera Maletic, Body, Space, Expression: The Development of Rudolf Laban’s Movement and Dance Concepts, New York, Berlin & Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1987.
• Lynn Matluck Brooks, "Harmony in Space: A Perspective on the Work of Rudolf Laban", Journal of Aesthetic Education 27:2 (Summer 1993), pp 29-41.
• Maureen Connolly, Anna Lathrop, "Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Rudolf Laban -- An Interactive Appropriation of Parallels and Resonances", Human Studies 20:1 (January 1997), pp 27-45. [1]
• Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Rudolf Laban, An Extraordinary Life, London: Dance Books, 1998.
• Eden Davies, Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis, London: Brechin Books, 2001; Routledge, 2006. Review.
• Evelyn Doerr, Rudolf Laban: The Dancer of the Crystal, Scarecrow Press, 2007, 312 pp. Review.
• Christopher Turner, "The Art of Movement", Cabinet 36 (Winter 2009/2010).
• Caspar Schwabe, "Eureka and Serendipity: The Rudolf von Laban Icosahedron and Buckminster Fuller's Jitterburg", in Bridges 2010: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture, Pecs, 2010, pp 271-278.
• N. Salazar Sutil, "Rudolf Laban and topological movement: a videographic analysis", Space and Culture, 16:2 (2013), pp 173-193.

External links

• Laban in Tanzarchiv Leipzig
• Laban at Wikipedia