Name: Moving With The Times
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Author: Valerie Preston-Dunlop
ISBN: 9781906830809

Type

Physical Book

Author

Valerie Preston-Dunlop

Publisher

David Leonard

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781906830809

Synopsis "Moving With The Times"

Uncompromising innovator, researcher, dancer and scholar, mentor and matriarch She is a bishop's daughter with a silver-spoon childhood and youthful traumas through the death of her father, wartime separation and teenage poverty. Valerie's meeting, aged sixteen, with the extraordinary Hungarian Rudolf Laban, guru of expressionist dance, set her on a life-long career devoted to questioning, championing and developing his initial insights into dance as a deeply significant art form for human wellbeing. Her writing exposes her battles to integrate dance practice with dance scholarship in a world set up to keep them apart. She shares the difficulties of balancing the demands of family with professional life exacerbated by the catastrophic illness of her husband John and her own experience of mental breakdown. She describes her travels taking dance all over the globe and collecting evidence across Europe of Laban's leadership of German dance in the 1920s and 1930s, work that the Nazi regime almost succeeded in annihilating. The book traces her support of what is now Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, from being in its first cohort of students in a grubby studio in Manchester to being honoured as a Fellow in its Herzog and de Meuron award-winning building in South London. Valerie shares her wholehearted commitment to whatever was on offer at difference stages of her life from performing and choreographing, renovating a Victorian garden and running clubs for disadvantaged people, writing books and directing documentaries, educating dancers and dance makers, engaging with all manner of people along the way from the left-wing theatre director Joan Littlewood to the establishment Archbishop of Canterbury or the astounding choreographer William Forsythe, while nurturing her family and embracing Quakerism.

Valerie Preston-Dunlop

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Valerie es una autora, profesora y conferenciante de renombre internacional. Entre sus libros actuales se incluyen: Rudolf Laban: Una vida extraordinaria (premiado al libro de Perspectivas de la Danza en 1999), Mirando las danzas: Una perspectiva coreológica sobre la coreografía y la danza y The Performative: una perspectiva coreológica, escrito con Ana Sánchez-Colberg (2002)

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