Overview
Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of dance notation make him an essential component of dance history. Rudolf Laban: The Dancer of the Crystal examines Laban's training, his teaching experiences, and the discovery and development of his principles of form and movement, paying special attention to his choreographic and philosophical work. Author Evelyn Doerr presents intriguing tidbits of the artist's experience, such as Laban's ambivalent position as the 'dance organizer' of the Nazi party in Germany, embedded in a historical and philosophical context, offering insights to his choreographic processes and the events that shaped his life. The book presents the different stages and elements of Laban's choreography discussing, for example, Laban's ""dance-sound-word"" instructional approach, his concept of the ""movement choir"" and examples of its realization, the concepts of eukinetics and choreutics, and a description of how these subjects were taught in Laban's school. Doerr also analyzes important elements in Laban's theories of spatial harmony and of effort, and she investigates his various early systems of dance notation, leading to a detailed explanation of kinetography, Laban's final notational system. A complete bibliography and an appendix of works choreographed between 1897 and 1936 help make this book an important contribution to Laban scholarship and to the dance, theater, and cultural history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Full Product Details
Author: Evelyn Doerr
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Imprint: Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9780810860070
ISBN 10: 0810860074
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 28 October 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Including an extensive bibliography, this thoroughly researched book brings to life an aspect of the artistic history of Europe in the first half on the 20th century. Recommended. Choice 2008
Author Information
Evelyn Doerr is the author of several books about Rudolf Laban in German. Most recently Doerrr published The Complete Choreographic Works, which includes Laban's complete choreographic oeuvre. Currently, she is working on a 3-volume edition of Laban's letters.
