Schrifttanz

work by Laban

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In dance notation: Twentieth-century developments
Schrifttanz (1928; “Written Dance”), by the Hungarian-born dance theorist Rudolf Laban, provided the basis for the notation system that bears his name: labanotation (also called Kinetography Laban). Laban had an eclectic interest in movement but found himself architecturally fascinated by its spatial aspects. Thus, his…
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In labanotation
…published it in the book Schrifttanz (“Written Dance”) in 1928. This work provided the basis of the system that bears his name—labanotation. From the 1930s to the ’90s, the system was refined, given a more universal basis, and developed to a high level by research practitioners in Germany, England, and…
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