ABSTRACT
I arrived at the Art of Movement Studio a year before publication of the first edition of Effort (1947). Rudolf Laban and Frederick Lawrence were looking for someone to train in succession to their main wartime collaborators in applying ‘Industrial Rhythm’ or ‘Lilt in Labour’, as they called it, in British factories. The collaborators were primarily Lisa Ullmann, who had started to concentrate on introducing movement into education, and Jean Newlove, who had become fully engaged in teaching movement to Theatre Workshop actors. My reason for being there was solely because I had become inspired after three months' research about Laban’s work in Germany between the two world wars.
