ABSTRACT
Rudolf Laban first undertook the task of writing about the basic trends of his thought. In his then current frame of mind, he selected the most abstract aspect of his theory what he chose to call 'choreutics', the art or science dealing with the analysis and synthesis of movement. In the almost twenty years that Laban spent in England, English could never be held to be a fluent means of expression for him, so one year after arrival the task of translating his ideas into English that read like English must have been a complicated one. In the Preface, Laban acknowledges that his notation is built on the same principles as those on which the choreography of Beauchamp and Feuillet was established 300 years earlier. Various articles appeared in the Laban Art of Movement Guild Magazine between this last booklet and Laban's death in July, 1958.
