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October 24-26 2008
Laban International Conference (24-26 October 2008) posed the question: How relevant are Rudolf Laban’s ideas today and how are they being developed in the performing arts internationally? Conference presenters and delegates from 26 countries addressed this question through papers, workshops, performances, films and lecture demonstrations in a lively exchange, making clear that the answer to the question is: indeed they are relevant today and their development by scholars, teachers and artists is enthusiastically continuing.
The conference included:
• A live performance of Rudolf Laban’s 1928 dance theatre work Green Clowns re-staged and directed by Alison Curtis-Jones and Valerie Preston-Dunlop, as well as the launch of a documentary film on the sources, framework and processes involved in recreating the work at Laban in 2008
• A practical session on the work of William Forsythe, led by former Ballett Frankfurt dancer, Ana Catalina Roman
• The launch of Valerie Preston-Dunlop’s research project, Developing a method for mapping the creative processes of multimedia performance works using choreological perspectives, with William Forsythe’s The Loss of Small Detail as the examplar, supported by grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• The launch of Living Architecture: Rudolf Laban and the Geometry of Dance, a film by Valerie Preston-Dunlop and Anna Carlisle
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