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1 online resource (165 pages) |
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Routledge Performance Practitioners |
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Routledge performance practitioners.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Prefavce; Acknowlevdvgment; 1 LABAN'S CORE: BIOGRAPHY; Developing; Training and studying; Exploring Munich and Paris; Evolving philosophy/choreosophy; Communing in Ascona; Learning from the world; Post-war recovering; Publishing and theorizing in Stuttgart; Laban as performance-practitioner; The end of performing; The approaching nightmare; Advancing mastery; Growing dance theory; Tossing and turning; Waking up; Re-energizing at Dartington; Winding down in Manchester and Surrey; Looking backwards and forwards |
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2 ANALYSIS OF A TEXT, THE MASTERY OF MOVEMENTThe concept of polarities united; Effort; Development of style; Accessing the mysterious; Synthesis of the elements; Notation and observation; The stage as laboratory; Therapy; Graphing life; Exertion and recuperation; Scripts and applications to theater; Three mime plays; Theater is life; Movement is living; 3 THE TANZTHEATER AND ANALYSIS OF A WORK: DIE GRÜNEN CLOWNS; Tanztheater privileged dance over music and visual components; Tanztheater drove the need for an analysis and notation system; Tanztheater inspired new contexts and form |
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Tanztheater balanced the abstract and the literalTanztheater produced a new type of choreographer; Tanztheater should not be abused!; Tanztheater re?ected the political and social issues of the times; Tanztheater informed and was informed by others creating their own approaches; Tanztheater broke old rules and created new ones; The Green Clowns/Die Grünen Clowns as Tanztheater; Tanztheater's legacy; 4 MASTERY OF MOVEMENT FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PERFORMER; Body language or movement language?; The big picture; Laban movement analysis; The body level; The effort level; The space level |
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The shape levelAffinities; Other concepts; Laban's legacy; The artist/researcher; Final thoughts; Afterpiece; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Rudolf Laban was one of the leading dance theorists of the twentieth century. His work on dance analysis and notation raised the status of dance as both an art form and a scholarly discipline. This is the first book to combine: an overview of Laban's life, work and inuences an exploration of his key ideas, including the revolutionary "Laban Movement Analysis" system analysis of his works Die Greunen Clowns and The Mastery of Movement and their relevance to dance theater from the 1920s onwards a detailed exercise-based breakdown of Laban's key teachings. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student |
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Karen K. Bradley is Associate Professor Emerita in Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Certified Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis |
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Print version record |
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Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958.
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Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958 fast |
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Choreographers -- Hungary -- Biography
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Tanztheater -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Modern.
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Choreographers
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Tanztheater
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Hungary
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351117043 |
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1351117041 |
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9781351117050 |
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135111705X |
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9781351117036 |
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1351117033 |
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9781351117067 |
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1351117068 |
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