Laban for actors and dancers : putting Laban's movement theory into practice : a step-by-step guide /
By: Newlove, Jean.
Publisher: London : Nick Hern Books, 1993Description: 158 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1854591657; 9781854591654:; 9781854591654; 1854591606; 9781854591609.Subject(s): Movement (Acting) | Dance | Movement notation | Choreography![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (page 158).
Preface -- Introduction -- Rudolf Laban -- Starting out -- A logical form -- Introducing the dimensional scale -- The diagonal scale -- The flow of movement -- Space -- Time -- Weight -- A survey of the space, time, weight and flow continuums -- Exploratory exercises for each of the eight basic effort actions -- Intermission -- Sound and gesture accompanying the eight basic effort actions -- Time-weight and the Greeks -- Mental effort preceding action -- Dance drama -- Objective function and movement sensation -- Incomplete effort -- The four drives -- Steps -- In search of the character -- Postscript -- Bibliography.
This guide takes the reader step-by-step through the basic principles of movement and includes graded exercises. The handbook is for teachers, students, actors and dancers, who wish to learn and use the Laban system of movement.