Laban in Zurich
Rudolf Laban his life and work
Der Freie Tanz - The Free Dance
Laban and two women by a tree
Laban in Zurich
Laban schools in 1927
A floorplan for Titan
Schrifttanz
A drawing from the 1920s
Laban in Berlin
The 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Art of Movement Studio
Laban went to Monté Verità in the summers of 1912–14, but he spent the winters in Zurich with his wife Maja and lover Suzy Perrottet, where they created a school.
Zurich was an artistic centre in the 1910s – Tristan Tzara and other Dadaists performed at the Cafe Voltaire where some of Laban's students danced.
The archive contains programmes from public performances, accounts of the teaching programme as well as architectural plans for a school.
Laban used the title Tanz-Ton-Wort (Dance-Sound-Word) to describe the interdisciplinary approach to movement which characterised his teaching.
His wife Maja was a voice teacher and undertook the “Wort” side of teaching, while Suzy Perrottet taught Dalcroze Eurythmics.
Mary Wigman, with whom Laban was experimenting with movement scales, was also an instructor in the early years in Zurich, but left to pursue her own career in the mid-1910s.
