When towards the end of the last century Rudolf Laban began to take
an interest in all forms of dance, it was with an en-thusiastically
searching mind, looking for the very roots of active living. He
believed the key for the unfolding of human capacities to be
embedded in the dynamic configurations of dance and that man could
enhance his creative powers by becoming aware of the nature of
shapes and rhythms through which living organisms express and
communicate. Choreutics can be said to contain the essence of
Laban's thought as well as an elaboration of the framework which he
found useful for the penetration of the bewildering complexity of
human movement. This he based on the unity of space and movement
and he recognised a natural order in which the energy from within
unfolds in space. This book gives a cogent account of the basis of
Laban's Space Harmony; this may become of similar significance to
the dancer, dance teacher and choreographer as Harmony of
Music-with which it can be compared- is to the musician. Of special
interest in this volume is the explicit presentation of the
grammatical and syntactical aspects of the language of move-ment
together with consideration of its nota-tion. It is shown that this
language is relevant not only to the dancer, actor and musician but
also to the architect, designer and sculptor, and moreover that the
aspects of Harmony stretch beyond the bounds of aesthetical use
into the field of everyday living.
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