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Hungarian visionary whose genius helped shape a movement
; HIS NAME might be unfamiliar, but Rudolf von Laban was a seminal figure in the development...dancer, choreographer and theoretician, Laban was born in Hungary on 15 December 1879. The Laban Centre in London would like us to regard...
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Kaye Donachie
; ...attracted anarchists, nudists, and Theosophists alongside such figures as Martin Buber, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Rudolf von Laban, Isadora Duncan, Hermann Hesse (who famously had his alcoholism treated there), and the sexual revolutionary Otto...
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HER NEXT STEP Dancer Dierdre Myles will move behind the curtain at Boston Ballet
; ...create, scribbling her own Laban shorthand, then running...Hungarian movement theorist Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s, is so detailed...intelligence. It took learning Laban to do that. As an apprentice...most people committed to Laban, Myles says that videotape...
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Modern dance revolution takes off with pounds 22m home
; ...forward in British contemporary dance. Laban, which is said to be the biggest purpose-bui...is the pounds 22m new home for the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance. The...runs the first MSc in Dance Science. Laban's most famous alumnus is Matthew Bourne...of being a dance-crazy nation. But Laban is ...
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Dancing grief away
; ...community ritually mourns the death of its children in a disaster the audience can only guess at. Kurt Jooss, a pupil of Rudolf von Laban, had fled Germany for England in 1933, bringing with him ideas about the expressive body; whether or not Tudor was...
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Dancing through history segment three
; ...the U.S.'s greatest dance talents, and Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis cultivated modern dance in America, while Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman did the same in Europe. ENRICO CECCHETTI 1850-1928 During Enrico Cecchetti's day, it was said that...
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OUR PICKS Film "THX 1138: T ...
; ...Vienna. Items on display trace the development of a century of Vienna-based dancers and choreographers, including Rudolf von Laban and Grete Wiesenthal. The opening performance and lecture Thursday feature the company Annemarie Papp Tanztheater...
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Open Eye: Afternoon of the Fawn
; ...which examines the value and history of dance notation. It is worth watching just to see the beautiful drawings of Rudolf von Laban, the Hungarian dancer, choreographer and inventor of Labanotation. Being also something of a mathematician, he would...
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Angela Bulloch
; ...reference choreographies by modernists Oskar Schlemmer and Rudolf von Laban, who used the same idiom-the movement of the body within a fixed unit of space. Von Laban actually used a two-square-meter cube, the dimensions...
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News of the muse
; ...from the pioneers of modern dance at the beginning of the 20th century such as Isadora Duncan,Wigman and Rudolf von Laban (inventor of Laban dance notation). Helen Kaye Flamenco dancer pulls out of TA festival The avant gard theater group from Portugal...
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