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The Harmonic Structure of Movement, Music and Dance According to Rudolf Laban: An Examination of His Unpublished Writings and Drawings - Hardcover
This study of Rudolf Laban, pre-eminent dance theorist of the twentieth century, provides the first comprehensive analysis of his research. Based upon an examination of unpublished writings and drawings from the final two decades of Laban's career, this book traces Laban's systematic integration of various strands of research and delineates how he used 'harmony' as an analogic metaphor to illuminate the deep structure of dance and movement. It addresses technical and conceptual links between Laban's first career as a visual artist and his subsequent vocation as a dance theorist. Key elements in his analytic movement taxonomy are introduced to familiarize the reader with terms used in the discussion of harmonic theory. Final sections extend the analogic metaphor, elaborating constructs such as tone, interval, scale, modulation, transposition, and harmonic interrelationships, while identifying hypotheses open to further empirical study. This original presentation of harmonics as a general theory of human movement will appeal to scholars in the performing arts, sports and movement studies, and dance and movement therapies.
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"This book reinvigorates Laban scholarship, showing how movement and mind, body and soul, emotion and concept, are one, entwined, inseparable." - Prof. Janet Lansdale University of Surrey "... elevates the scholarly study of movement and provides insightful foundations for future research." - Prof. Madeleine Scott Ohio University, Athens"
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Dr. Moore designs movement analysis curricula at the post-graduate levels for Columbia College Chicago, the University of Surrey, England, and the Art Universities of Finland.
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- PublisherEdwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0773447776
- ISBN 13 9780773447776
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages360
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