Rudolph Von Laban
1879-1958
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Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban (Hungarian: Rezső Lábán de Váraljas, Rezső Keresztelő Szent János Attila Lábán, Lábán Rezső, Lábán Rudolf; 15 December 1879 – 1 July 1958), was an Austro-Hungarian dance artist and theorist. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern dance in Europe as the "Founding Father of the Expressionist Dance" in Germany.1 His work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, Labanotation (Kinetography Laban), other more specific developments in dance notation and the evolution of many varieties of Laban movement analysis. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of dance, though his legacy remains tainted by his role in the Nazi movement of the 1930s in Europe.2 the first choreographer to define a movement vocabulary in the body’s relationship to “space,” “shape,” and “effort(the inner impulses)” (Hutchinson, 7).