 |
| Rudolf Labán |
In the book, Lábán describes his childhood, the point in time he decided on an artistic career and his philosophy of dance.
L'Harmattan published A Life For Dance as part of its dance history series with a forward by János Fügedi and an afterward by Miklós Vojtek, said the book's editor Lívia Fuchs. Last year, L'Harmattan published another of Lábán's books, Choreography, for the first time in Hungarian, she added. The book, which appeared in the mid 1920s, was a milestone in the study of dance which freed the art from its strong binds to music examining its own set of rules from the view of space, time and strength.
Rudolf Lábán was born in Bratislava, then a part of Austria-Hungary. He initially prepared to become a painter, but later decided he would rather involve himself with the movements of the human body. Lábán set up the Choreographic Institute in Zürich in 1915 and later founded branches in Italy, France and Central Europe. His greatest contribution to dance was his 1928 publication of Kinetographie Laban, a dance notation system that came to be called Labanotation and is still used as one of the primary movement notation systems in dance.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI
