Laban's Contribution

Rudolf Laban made enormous contributions to dance. He not only gave descriptions to movement and changed the way we talk about it but he also gave a way to notate movement. Today his language is still used in order to describe movement and to train dancers without much of it changing. His notation system is called Laban Movement Notation. This has been used to reconstruct dances that were never recorded on video. Without Laban we could not see some of the works that existed before video was around. Today educated dancers usually undergo some kind of training in his studies. Some of his students used his work to develop something of their own such as Bartinieff Fundamentals. Others have used his tetrahedron to develop other ways to organize compositional techniques to create movement. Another one of his major contributions was the movement choirs which is discussed in the above Youtube video. There are countless contributions he has made to dancers around the world with the work he did.