{"product_id":"rudolf-laban-man-of-valerie-preston-dunlop-9781852731670","title":"Rudolf Laban - Man of Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his significance for dance theatre today, giving access to his creative practices as he provided dance audiences with shock, amusement, awe, curiosity, beauty and meaning. Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop, with collaborating artists and dancers, has researched and recreated for today's audiences four groundbreaking works: The visionary \u003cem\u003eSwinging Temple\u003c\/em\u003e of 1922, his diverse \u003cem\u003eSuite \u003c\/em\u003eof 1924, his critique of Weimar Republic's decadence \u003cem\u003eNacht \u003c\/em\u003e1927, and his tragic-comic satire \u003cem\u003eGreen Clowns\u003c\/em\u003e. The book follows the making of these works starting with his dynamic revitalisation of dance, freeing dance from music and from ballet, introducing improvisation to find movements never danced before. His struggles in Paris, Munich, Zurich, Hamburg and Berlin, cities vibrant with political controversy and dramatic cultural change, are presented as central to the content and rehearsal methods of his dance theatre works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe re-creations discussed are no resuscitation of dead dances but the result of a radical new look at how to engage today with dances made in the 1920s. Preston-Dunlop, her collaborators rehearsal directors Alison Curtis-Jones and Melanie Clarke, and composers Oli Newman and Robert Coleridge, write with a frank freshness of what actually goes on in the re-making of an expressionist work where dancers may speak, shout, gasp, spit as well as dance in unfamiliar and demanding ways. The impact of these works on the collaborating dancers, in 1920 and today, was profound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides essential historical data on Rudolf Laban's theatre works whose performances can be viewed on the DVDs made of \u003cem\u003eSwinging Temple, Solos and Duos, Nacht \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Green Clowns.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerie Preston-Dunlop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1852731672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781852731670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David Leonard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.40d","brand":"Valerie Preston-Dunlop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742656082175,"sku":"9781852731670","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rudolf-laban-man-of-valerie-preston-dunlop-9781852731670","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}