|aLaban, Rudolf von, |d1879-1958.|0http://viaf.org/viaf/39418539
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|aChoreutics / |cRudolf Laban ; annotated and edited by Lisa Ullmann.
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|aAlton, Hampshire, UK : |bDance Books, |cc2011.
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|ax, 214 p. : |bill. ; |c25 cm.
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|aOriginally published: London : Macdonald & Evans, 1966.
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|aIncludes index.
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|aA new aspect of space and movement. Principles of orientation in space -- The body and the kinesphere -- Exploration of the dynamosphere -- Natural sequences and scales in space -- The body and trace-forms -- Natural sequences of the dynamosphere -- The standard scale -- Bodily persepctive -- Stabilising and mobilising of trace-froms -- Cubic and spheric forms of the scaffolding -- Choreutic shapes performed by the body -- Free inclinations -- Rudiments of space-movement. Division of space through the moving body -- Sequential laws -- Peripheral movements -- Mixed sequences of transversals and peripherals -- Harmonic relations -- Stable and labile relationships -- Survey of elements restraining or promoting flux of movement.
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|a'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.