Rudolf Laban

<p>A visionary a mystic a lover a leader a dancer an artist a teacher a theorist.</p><p>Rudolf Laban (1879 - 1958) was all these things. Born in fin-de-siecle Austro-Hungary Laban lived in Austria France and Germany. Though he began as a painter architect and illustrator it is in movement and dance that Laban made a lasting impact. He was a performer a choreographer and a mentor but his ideas were always part of a broader vision of of movement - as theatre art as community celebration and as self-discovery. Through his research into movement he uncovered the interconnections of the body and the psyche the individual and the group and he devised a revolutionary system of movement notation that is till in use today.</p>