ABSTRACT

Throughout his peripatetic career as a visual artist, dancer, choreographer, writer, teacher, consultant and theorist, Laban never stopped wondering about human movement. When his observations and ruminations reached a temporary conclusion, he published. Then his relentless curiosity drove him on, to new examinations and formulations. As Bartenieff describes, ‘It was an unending process of defining the inner and outer manifestations of movement phenomena in increasingly subtle shades and complex interrelationships.’ 2