biography
pronunciation:
[laybn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1958)
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| biography:
| Dancer, choreographer, dance theorist, and notator, born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He studied ballet, acting, and painting in Paris, and from 1910 founded numerous European schools, theatres, and institutions. He was ballet director of Berlin State Opera (1930–4), and created dances for the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. In England he established the Art of Movement Studio in 1946, now known as the Laban Centre and part of Goldsmiths College, London University. As the leader of the C European dance movement he was instrumental in the development of modern dance as a theatre form. His system of dance notation, Labanotation, was published as Kinetographie Laban in 1928. |
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