Laban for All

Author: Jean Newlove
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135872139
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Rudolf Laban was one of the great theorists and practitioners of movement. In Laban for All, expert teachers of Laban's techniques offer simplified version of his system that can be used by anyone, from beginners to pros. Extensively illustrated with John Dalby's line drawings and diagrams, Laban for All lays out the basic vocabulary of the Laban system and goes on to offer specific exercises. The result is a thorough - and thoroughly practical - grounding in the most important movement system in use today.

Laban for Actors and Dancers

Author: Jean Newlove
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854591609
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Rudolf Laban is to movement what Stanislavski is to acting.

Laban for All

Author: Jean Newlove
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854597250
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This is a basic "how-to" manual on the Laban system of movement. It offers a simplified version of his system which can be used by relative beginners upwards.

Actor Training the Laban Way (Second Edition)

Author: Barbara Adrian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621538443
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
The Groundbreaking Actor Training Guide, Enhanced with New Videos and Expert Advice from Acting Professionals Actors, teachers, and students of performing arts: sharpen your skills and release your potential with Actor Training the Laban Way, a groundbreaking approach to physical and vocal movement. Utilizing theories of preeminent movement theorist Rudolf Laban, acting teacher and performer Barbara Adrian integrates voice, speech, and movement training with illustrated individual and group exercises that include: Breath Support Building Dynamic Alignment Expanding Vocal Tone and Range Articulation and Rhythmic Exploration Enhancing Strength and Stamina Improving Balance and Flexibility Developing a Relationship to the Environs Revealing Your Emotional State through Physical and Vocal Action This second edition also includes an all-new chapter of advice from acting professionals on how they deploy these exercises and techniques in their acting preparation, practice, and performance. New appendices offer readers links to video supplements as well as exercises in IPA. Actor Training the Laban Way will make any performer more impulsive, imaginative, and expressive.

The Laban Sourcebook

Author: Dick McCaw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136979484
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
In this sourcebook, Dick McCaw brings together the key writings of Rudolf Laban. McCaw gives an overview of the theory and practice of this pioneer of dance theatre creating a vital resource for students of dance, movement, theatre and performance.

Rudolf Laban

Author: Karen Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351117041
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Rudolf Laban was one of the leading dance theorists of the twentieth century. His work on dance analysis and notation raised the status of dance as both an art form and a scholarly discipline. This is the first book to combine: an overview of Laban’s life, work and influences an exploration of his key ideas, including the revolutionary "Laban Movement Analysis" system analysis of his works Die Grünen Clowns and The Mastery of Movement and their relevance to dance theater from the 1920s onwards a detailed exercise-based breakdown of Laban’s key teachings. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.

Laban's Efforts in Action

Author: Vanessa Ewan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472524527
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
As an actor, awareness of your movement is the key to transformation. By making deliberate physical choices, you can fully and articulately embody different ways of being: you can become someone or something else. Laban's Efforts give you a way of identifying and making these choices. Working with them helps the actor to create wholly present and physically ambitious performances. This book outlines Ewan's practical process, which allows the actor to understand their own movement and that of others by exploring one key part of Laban's work: the 'Efforts of Action Drive'. This complete, stage-by-stage, working process has been developed through more than thirty years of work with actors in the studio. Clear instructions for practical exercises are woven throughout the book, as well as exciting ways to apply the work in rehearsal, performance and on set. This allows the actor to learn and apply Laban's Efforts for themselves. Full video and audio resources allow the reader to experience the practical work in action.

Body - Space - Expression

Author: Vera Maletic
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110861836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Body - Space - Expression: The Development Of Rudolf Laban's Movement And Dance Concepts (Approaches To Semiotics).

Mastering Movement

Author: John Hodgson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135860866
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary arts. This is the first major study of Laban's movement theories and practice, exploring the ideas on mastering movement and giving the reader a practical understanding of balance and harmony in the human body – the core of Laban's thinking. John Hodgson looks at the different phases of Laban's life and writings to show that Laban's thoughts about human movement and its mastery and control are the building blocks for a practical understanding of how the human body can create both beauty and purity through movement.

Choreutics

Author: Rudolf von Laban
Publisher: London : Macdonald & Evans
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
'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.