ABSTRACT
There are three stages to the Laban Lawrence Industrial Rhythm (L.L.I.R.). They begin by observing workers in action, notating a person’s individual way of working, then follows an analysis of the results and finally a training program is proposed based on the conclusions. The JHA contains a large number of reports and correspondence about the industrial work. The Dartington Report contains the greatest amount of detail about the training. Challenging the image of Laban being uninterested in detail Lamb recalls long evenings in Laban’s house in Manchester going over movement observations. This is a fascinating image of Laban, as a ‘very indefatigable experimenter’. It makes sense of the mentality of the man who came up with the principles of dance notation and who worked out problems of solid geometry in his drawings and model-making.
