ABSTRACT
The author argues that Laban drew the basics of his insight from practical experience and that this insight was tested and modified in the light of a number of forerunners on whose ideas he could build. But still, for him, the most important source of his knowledge is the dance itself, the sharing and exchange of ideas with other dancers and fellow workers. From the Second World War to the end of his life, Laban's influence spread not so much through the dance as through applied movement studies, the Laban Art of Movement Guild and the work of the Laban Centre's in Manchester and Addlestone. When a book on Modern Educational Dance was called for, the name on the cover was Rudolf Laban but the text was largely Lisa's adaptation of his theory. Laban acknowledged this in a letter to Suzanne Perrottet, when he said that the Modern Educational Dance work was mostly Lisa's.
