Modern Educational Dance, 1948. Still in print. Trans and published in Japan 1984.
Edited as Dance in Education, 2nd ed. 1980.
Edited in response to the change in educational policy from studying dance as experience to dance as an art form. Published as Modern Educational Dance, Plays Inc, U.S.A. 1990.
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Handbook for Dance in Education, Macdonald & Evans, 1963
Written as a text book for the teacher training college students, the chapters tease out Rudolf Laban’s influential book
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Readers in Kinetography Series A + B , Macdonald & Evans, 1966/67
This text introduces the innovative use of notation that became known as Motif Writing, a way of making Labanotation (or kinetography) accessible, and connecting notation with structured improvisation.
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Practical Kinetography Laban, Macdonald & Evans 1969
I had introduced Motif Writing by taking the symbols out of the three line staff of a Laban notation score and using them as indications for creative movement. Kinetography Laban was the original name for the system so at that time I used it rather than the American title Labanotation. Removing the symbols set up all manner of questions on the grammar of movement and how to describe it, such as distinguishing between a motion and its destination, a form and its intention, the location of centre, turning and twisting, and so on. In this book I set out to show the connection between Motif Writing concepts and those in the main system and the clarification of some of these issues.
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Dance is a Language, isn’t it?, Laban Centre 1979
This is an informal text that uses unusual page format to link practice with theory and reflects the discourse of the time on whether dance could be regarded as a language or not. It introduces the structural model of movement known as The Star that would become the starting point for the development of Choreological Perspectives.
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Dancing and Dance Theory (ed.), Laban Centre, 1980
In 1979 LABAN Centre hosted an international conference on the centenary of Laban’s birth. This text was commissioned to document some of the events and seminal discussions that integrated Laban studies with professional dance technique and choreography for the first time.
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The Nature of the Embodiment of Choreutic Units in Choreography, PhD Thesis U.M.I 1981
My doctoral research introduced CHUMM analysis, (Choreutic Units and their Manner of Materialisation) where both actual and virtual spatial forms are shown to be present in clusters in choreography, a key concept in releasing Laban’s space harmony analysis from his practice of spatial scales.
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Point of Departure: The Dancer's Space, 1984
Building on the CHUMM innovation, this text explains the content of Laban’s scales and rings and suggests ways of using them radically rather than as a fixed form. 2nd edition, Verve Publishing 2008
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Schrifttanz: A View of Dance in the Weimar Republic, with Susanne Lahusen, Dance Books 1990
*supported by Goethe Institute
Having curated the Laban Collection of documents on Laban’s work in Germany it was clear that a mass of his most innovative work had been lost when he emigrated to the UK in 1938 and his books and schools were forbidden. This translation of articles from the journal Schrifttanz begins the publishing focus on Laban as an artist/researcher and man of theatre.
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Rudolf Laban, an introduction to his work an influence, with John Hodgson, Northcote House 1990
*supported by Bretton Hall, trans, Actes Sud.
In 1990 the Laban Centre commissioned me to curate an exhibition on the breadth of Laban’s work, in collaboration with John Hodgson. This text was written to accompany the exhibits.
--> buy
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Dance Words (ed), Harwood Academic Publishers 1995
This text was written at a time when I was introducing Choreological Studies as a development of Laban Studies in which Laban’s terminology and concepts are juxtaposed with the concepts and practices of other giants of dance practice. It shows the range of language used in the profession to get at movement, the most non-verbal of art forms.
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Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinary Life, Dance Books 1998
(de la Torre award) Paperback Ed. 2008.
I had published detailed articles on ‘The Making of Modern Dance’ on Laban’s turbulent life in Munich, Monte Verita and Zurich 1910 -1918. John Hodgson has been expected to write Laban’s biography but it became clear that he was not able to do so. So I decided to write it using the copious data I had amassed for the Laban Collection from archives and individuals all over Europe. This became the first comprehensive text on the man’s work.
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Looking at Dances, Verve Publishing 1998
*commissioned by LCA Utrecht. Trans as Dansen nader bekeken, LCA Utrecht 1999.
In this text the format reflects the way dance people speak in the studio rather than how we write. It introduces the reader to ways of communicating, or not, in dance through discussing choreographic choices through a choreological methodology. Being practice-based it has become a popular text for dance students.
--> buy
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Dance and the Performative: a Choreological Perspective, Laban and beyond, with A. Sanchez-Colberg. Verve and S. Rubidge, P. Salosaa. Verve Publishing 2002
In this text Choreological Perspectives are scrutinized and the practice/theory connection is discussed and supported in articles by other practical scholars using a variety of choreological methods.
--> buy
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'Dance in Great Britain in the 70's and 80's' with D.G.Madden,
The Dance Has Many Faces (ed, Walter Sorell) 3rd Ed, 1992
'Rudolf Laban', biography for entry in Dance Perspectives International Encyclopedia on Dance 1987
'Rudolf Laban's Choreographic Works' in Encyclopaedia of Music Theatre, (ed. G. Schuller), Bayreuth University Press 1989
'Laban, Schoenberg and Kandinsky 1899-1938', in La Danse Tracee (ed. L. Louppe), Centre Pompidou 1990
‘Bodies in Dada’ in The Arts in Crisis: a History of Dada (ed. Stephen Foster), Iowa, Hall and Co 1997
'Rudolf Laban and Kurt Jooss in exile' in Artists in Exile (ed. Gunther Berghaus), Berg Publishers 1989 Preface for French edition of Laban's Modern Educational
'Dance', Editions Complexe, Brussels 2003
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'Rudolf Laban's Cultural Environment', Working Papers, I. 1987.
'Laban and the Nazis: Towards an Understanding of Rudolf Laban and the Third Reich', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 6 No 2. 1988.
'Choreological Studies, 1928 and 1988', Movement andDance, No 77, May. 1988.
'Laban's Kammertanzbhune Revisited', Movement and Dance, No 77, May. 1988.
‘Rudolf Laban: the seminal years in Munich, 1910-14' Dance Theatre Journal Vol 7, Nos 3 and 4. 1989.
'Laban in Zurich, 1914-1919: the nightmare years', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 10 No 3. 1993.
'Dance Dynamics', Dance Theatre Journal,Vol 13 No 2. 1996.
'Symbolism and the European dance revolution', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 14 No 3. 1998.
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Edited as Dance in Education, 2nd ed. 1980.
Edited in response to the change in educational policy from studying dance as experience to dance as an art form. Published as Modern Educational Dance, Plays Inc, U.S.A. 1990.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Handbook for Dance in Education, Macdonald & Evans, 1963
Written as a text book for the teacher training college students, the chapters tease out Rudolf Laban’s influential book
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Readers in Kinetography Series A + B , Macdonald & Evans, 1966/67
This text introduces the innovative use of notation that became known as Motif Writing, a way of making Labanotation (or kinetography) accessible, and connecting notation with structured improvisation.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Practical Kinetography Laban, Macdonald & Evans 1969
I had introduced Motif Writing by taking the symbols out of the three line staff of a Laban notation score and using them as indications for creative movement. Kinetography Laban was the original name for the system so at that time I used it rather than the American title Labanotation. Removing the symbols set up all manner of questions on the grammar of movement and how to describe it, such as distinguishing between a motion and its destination, a form and its intention, the location of centre, turning and twisting, and so on. In this book I set out to show the connection between Motif Writing concepts and those in the main system and the clarification of some of these issues.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dance is a Language, isn’t it?, Laban Centre 1979
This is an informal text that uses unusual page format to link practice with theory and reflects the discourse of the time on whether dance could be regarded as a language or not. It introduces the structural model of movement known as The Star that would become the starting point for the development of Choreological Perspectives.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dancing and Dance Theory (ed.), Laban Centre, 1980
In 1979 LABAN Centre hosted an international conference on the centenary of Laban’s birth. This text was commissioned to document some of the events and seminal discussions that integrated Laban studies with professional dance technique and choreography for the first time.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
The Nature of the Embodiment of Choreutic Units in Choreography, PhD Thesis U.M.I 1981
My doctoral research introduced CHUMM analysis, (Choreutic Units and their Manner of Materialisation) where both actual and virtual spatial forms are shown to be present in clusters in choreography, a key concept in releasing Laban’s space harmony analysis from his practice of spatial scales.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Point of Departure: The Dancer's Space, 1984
Building on the CHUMM innovation, this text explains the content of Laban’s scales and rings and suggests ways of using them radically rather than as a fixed form. 2nd edition, Verve Publishing 2008
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Schrifttanz: A View of Dance in the Weimar Republic, with Susanne Lahusen, Dance Books 1990
*supported by Goethe Institute
Having curated the Laban Collection of documents on Laban’s work in Germany it was clear that a mass of his most innovative work had been lost when he emigrated to the UK in 1938 and his books and schools were forbidden. This translation of articles from the journal Schrifttanz begins the publishing focus on Laban as an artist/researcher and man of theatre.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Rudolf Laban, an introduction to his work an influence, with John Hodgson, Northcote House 1990
*supported by Bretton Hall, trans, Actes Sud.
In 1990 the Laban Centre commissioned me to curate an exhibition on the breadth of Laban’s work, in collaboration with John Hodgson. This text was written to accompany the exhibits.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dance Words (ed), Harwood Academic Publishers 1995
This text was written at a time when I was introducing Choreological Studies as a development of Laban Studies in which Laban’s terminology and concepts are juxtaposed with the concepts and practices of other giants of dance practice. It shows the range of language used in the profession to get at movement, the most non-verbal of art forms.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinary Life, Dance Books 1998
(de la Torre award) Paperback Ed. 2008.
I had published detailed articles on ‘The Making of Modern Dance’ on Laban’s turbulent life in Munich, Monte Verita and Zurich 1910 -1918. John Hodgson has been expected to write Laban’s biography but it became clear that he was not able to do so. So I decided to write it using the copious data I had amassed for the Laban Collection from archives and individuals all over Europe. This became the first comprehensive text on the man’s work.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking at Dances, Verve Publishing 1998
*commissioned by LCA Utrecht. Trans as Dansen nader bekeken, LCA Utrecht 1999.
In this text the format reflects the way dance people speak in the studio rather than how we write. It introduces the reader to ways of communicating, or not, in dance through discussing choreographic choices through a choreological methodology. Being practice-based it has become a popular text for dance students.
--> buy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dance and the Performative: a Choreological Perspective, Laban and beyond, with A. Sanchez-Colberg. Verve and S. Rubidge, P. Salosaa. Verve Publishing 2002
In this text Choreological Perspectives are scrutinized and the practice/theory connection is discussed and supported in articles by other practical scholars using a variety of choreological methods.
--> buy
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CHAPTERS IN OTHER BOOKS
'Dance in Great Britain in the 70's and 80's' with D.G.Madden,
The Dance Has Many Faces (ed, Walter Sorell) 3rd Ed, 1992
'Rudolf Laban', biography for entry in Dance Perspectives International Encyclopedia on Dance 1987
'Rudolf Laban's Choreographic Works' in Encyclopaedia of Music Theatre, (ed. G. Schuller), Bayreuth University Press 1989
'Laban, Schoenberg and Kandinsky 1899-1938', in La Danse Tracee (ed. L. Louppe), Centre Pompidou 1990
‘Bodies in Dada’ in The Arts in Crisis: a History of Dada (ed. Stephen Foster), Iowa, Hall and Co 1997
'Rudolf Laban and Kurt Jooss in exile' in Artists in Exile (ed. Gunther Berghaus), Berg Publishers 1989 Preface for French edition of Laban's Modern Educational
'Dance', Editions Complexe, Brussels 2003
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES
'Rudolf Laban's Cultural Environment', Working Papers, I. 1987.
'Laban and the Nazis: Towards an Understanding of Rudolf Laban and the Third Reich', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 6 No 2. 1988.
'Choreological Studies, 1928 and 1988', Movement andDance, No 77, May. 1988.
'Laban's Kammertanzbhune Revisited', Movement and Dance, No 77, May. 1988.
‘Rudolf Laban: the seminal years in Munich, 1910-14' Dance Theatre Journal Vol 7, Nos 3 and 4. 1989.
'Laban in Zurich, 1914-1919: the nightmare years', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 10 No 3. 1993.
'Dance Dynamics', Dance Theatre Journal,Vol 13 No 2. 1996.
'Symbolism and the European dance revolution', Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 14 No 3. 1998.
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