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Rudolf Laban - Man of Theatre (Paperback)
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Rudolf Laban - Man of Theatre (Paperback)
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Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre
works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately
annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his
significance for dance theatre today, giving access to his creative
practices as he provided dance audiences with shock, amusement,
awe, curiosity, beauty and meaning. Dr. Valerie Preston-Dunlop,
with collaborating artists and dancers, has researched and
recreated for today's audiences four groundbreaking works: The
visionary Swinging Temple of 1922, his diverse Suite of 1924, his
critique of Weimar Republic's decadence Nacht 1927, and his
tragic-comic satire Green Clowns. The book follows the making of
these works starting with his dynamic revitalisation of dance,
freeing dance from music and from ballet, introducing improvisation
to find movements never danced before. His struggles in Paris,
Munich, Zurich, Hamburg and Berlin, cities vibrant with political
controversy and dramatic cultural change, are presented as central
to the content and rehearsal methods of his dance theatre works.
The re-creations discussed are no resuscitation of dead dances but
the result of a radical new look at how to engage today with dances
made in the 1920s. Preston-Dunlop, her collaborators rehearsal
directors Alison Curtis-Jones and Melanie Clarke, and composers Oli
Newman and Robert Coleridge, write with a frank freshness of what
actually goes on in the re-making of an expressionist work where
dancers may speak, shout, gasp and spit as well as dance in
unfamiliar and demanding ways. The impact of these works on the
collaborating dancers, in 1920 and today was profound.
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