ABSTRACT
The first part of this book was written by Laban on his arrival in Great Britain as a non-English-speaking refugee in 1939. It was designed to introduce his principles of the dynamic space of movement to his host country, somewhat desperately since having to leave behind all his archives and writings when he fled Germany. The text lay in safe keeping until his death. 1 At that point a second part was compiled and added by his close collaborator Lisa Ullmann in order to make a comprehensive publication, based on notes by Gertrud Snell, Laban’s assistant at his Choreographisches Institut in the 1920s and 1930s.
