| Description |
1 online resource (445 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Laban in Perspectives -- A Biographical Sketch -- A Sketch of Laban's Thinking -- Rounds of Thinking, Dance as Philosophy -- Eukinetics and Choreutics -- Laban the Choreographer and Organiser of Dancers -- Rhythm -- The Structure and Content of This Book -- A Translator's Perspective -- Some Thoughts on Translation Ethics -- Gemeinschaft -- Some Related Concepts: Dance Sense, Body Intelligence, Rhythm and Tension -- Laban's Writings About Rhythm |
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Free Dance and Laws of Dance -- Festkultur -- The Idea of Swinging -- Tanz-Ton-Wort and Gesamtkunstwerk -- Tanzerziehung -- Dance and Education -- Translating 'Effort' Into German -- Eine Neue Tanzschrift -- Dance Notation -- The Translator's Dance -- An Archival Perspective -- Laban Archives in England and Germany -- John Hodgson's Archive of Laban Materials -- Cushions, Curtains and Clothes: The Contents of Hodgson's Archive -- About John Hodgson (1927-1997) -- Lisa Ullmann, Laban's Legacy and Hodgson's Biography |
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'Life Stories' Recorded by an 'Amateur': Hodgson's Interviews with Laban's Family and Students -- Part I: 1910-1919 -- Introduction -- Key Concepts -- Suzie Perrottet, Laban and Music -- Laban on Music -- 5-Oct-12 -- Jan-23 -- June 1913, Monté Verità -- End of June 1913 -- 1 Hans Brandenburg and Rudolf Laban -- Introduction -- The Texts -- Letters From Laban to Hans Brandenburg -- From Chapter 1, Der Moderne Tanz -- 2 Laban's Schools in Zurich and Ascona -- Introduction -- Texts -- How Mary Wigman Got to Ascona -- A Plan for a School in Zurich -- Letters from Käthe Wulff to Her Family |
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A Letter from Käthe Wulff to Hugo Ball -- 3 Reviews of Labanschule Performances in Ascona, Munich and Zurich, 1914-1917 -- Introduction -- More Bouquets than Brickbats -- Laban Schools in Munich and Zurich 1914-1917 -- The Free Dance (No Publication or Author, Dated 1914) -- Summers in Ascona -- 4 Texts by Laban -- Introduction -- Texts -- The Free Dance (Rudolf Von Laban-Váralja) -- Notes on Rhythm -- Rhythmic Curve -- Die Kreise -- The Circle -- Die Erde -- Earth -- Part II: 1920-1929 -- Introduction to Part II -- A Brief Overview -- Contexts and Perspectives |
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Overview of Laban's Achievements in the 1920s -- 5 Laban: A Philosopher of Dance -- Introduction -- What Exactly Was Laban? -- The Deeper Meaning of Rudolf Von Laban (J. A. Meisenbach) -- Introducing Laban's Two Texts -- Dance and the Art of the Stage -- Dance Theatre and Dance Temple -- 6 Laban's Teaching and his Teaching Institutions -- Introduction -- The Texts -- Exercises From Tanz und Gymnastik -- Letters Between Gleisner and Laban About Laban Schools -- The Choreographic Institute Laban -- 7 Laban's Chamber Dance Group -- Introduction: Laban the Choreographer |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Critiques of Laban's Kammertanzbuhne's Touring Programme of 1927-1928 |
| Subject |
Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958 fast |
| Subject |
Modern dance -- Philosophy
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Movement notation.
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Modern dance -- Philosophy
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Movement notation
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003822516 |
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1003822517 |
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