Authors: Jean Newlove, John Dalby, John Dalby
ISBN-13: 9780878301805, ISBN-10: 0878301801
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Jean Newlove was Laban's assistant after he went to England as a refugee in 1938. She has taught Laban's ideas at the Royal Shakespeare Company and throughout the world. Her Laban for Actors and Dancers is also published by Routledge. Actor, voice teacher, and musician, John Dalby also assisted in some of Laban's coureses and has taught around the world.
Rudolf Laban was one of the great theorists and practitioners of movement. In Laban for All, expert teachers of Laban's techniques offer simplified version of his system that can be used by anyone, from beginners to pros.
Extensively illustrated with John Dalby's line drawings and diagrams, Laban for All lays out the basic vocabulary of the Laban system and goes on to offer specific exercises.
The result is a thorough - and thoroughly practical - grounding in the most important movement system in use today.
Foreword | 10 | |
Laban | 11 | |
Some Useful Terms and Expressions | 17 | |
Steps | 19 | |
Why Plato? | 23 | |
1 | Using the Five Crystals | 27 |
2 | The Movement Scales | 62 |
3 | Space, Time, Weight and Flow | 112 |
4 | The Eight Basic Efforts | 129 |
5 | The Movement in Sound and Voice | 171 |
6 | Incomplete Efforts | 185 |
7 | The Four Drives | 196 |
8 | For Those Who Act | 209 |
9 | For Those Who Dance | 226 |
10 | For Those Who Teach | 249 |
Postscript | 251 | |
How to Make Your Own Icosahedron | 252 | |
Bibliography | 255 |