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Total number of records: 921

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Rudolf Laban Collections921
Brotherton Collection910
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

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Rudolf Laban173
Rudolf Johann Baptiste Attila173
Rudolf Jean-Baptiste Attila Von Laban173
Laban, Rudolf Von (1879-1958)173
Hodgson, John (1927-1997)99
Liza Ullmann13
Ullmann, Lisa (1907-1985)13
Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann8
Preston-Dunlop, Valerie (1930-)8
Wigman, Mary (1886-1973)8

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Archive Collection

Rudolf Laban Collection compiled by Dick McCaw

Laban, Rudolf von (1879-1958)

1936-2013

Includes journals and other publications relating to Laban Movement Analysis and, oral history recordings with teachers of the technique and its practitioners. Also includes archives from Geraldine S...

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Laban - published sources

1949-2013

Publications relating to Laban movement analysis. Includes the journals 'Laban Guild Newsletter', the 'Laban Guild Movement and Dance Quarterly' and 'Movement and Dance'.

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Oral history recordings

McCaw, Dick

2004-2013

Comprises oral history recordings of interviews with practitioners of Laban Movement Analysis including Warren Lamb, Geraldine Stephenson, Clifford Parrish and Walli Meier.

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Miscellaneous material relating to Laban

McCaw, Dick

2006

Comprises 'Lessons after Laban Two DVD ROMs on Geraldine Stephenson's life in Dance and Movement' 2006, a black and white photograph of Laban and a brochure 'Der Freie Tanz' advertising the 'Atelier f...

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Dance notebooks

2001-2006

Comprises copies of four notebooks kept by Geraldine Stephenson, a Laban tutor, on the dance practice of her pupil, Dick McCaw. Stephenson transcribed her original notebooks out and presented the cop...

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Decision making and movement pattern analysis

McCaw, Dick; Lamb, Warren (1923-2014)

1 Nov 2006

The DVD is a separate accrual. Its full title is "Decision making and movement pattern analysis: understand decision making through movement observation". It is about the work of Warren Lamb, introd...

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Archive Series

Laban Guild Newsletter

Laban Guild

1985-1992

Spring 1985, Vol. 4, No. 1 to Spring 1992 - Vol. 11, No. 1

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Movement and Dance Quarterly

Laban Guild

1992-2013

Summer 1992, Vol. 11, No. 2 to Spring 2013, Vol. 32, No. 1

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Movement and Dance

1949-2013

Vol. 3 (1949) to Vol. 80 (1991). Volumes 11, 12, 19, 20 and 32 are missing. The title of this journal changed from the 'Laban Art and Guild Movement Newsheet' to the 'Laban Art and Guild Magazine' i...

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Miscellaneous publications

1970-2000

Includes leaflet for the Laban Guild's 'Leaders' training scheme', 'Report on Conference on Movement and Dance in Therapy and Special Education' 1982, 'Kinetographisches Lexikon der klassischen Tanzte...

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Audio materials

1910-1998

The cassettes hold recordings with some of the leading figures in the field of Laban studies. There are eleven cassettes of interviews with choreographer Kurt Jooss, teacher of the legendary Pina Baus...

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Journals

1929-1976

This series comprises complete journals, not single articles from journals.

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