About the Book:

Rudolf Laban is to movement what Stanislavski is to acting. He devised the first wholly successful system for recording human movement, a system which is increasingly influential in the training of actors and dancers.

Laban for Actors and Dancers is a handbook by Jean Newlove, complete with graded exercises, for teachers and students wanting a practical introduction to Laban's famous system of movement.

What people say:

"required reading for every young student of the theatre - and a lot of the older ones would reap enormous benefit from it." — Murray Melvin, stage and film actor

About the Author:

Jean Newlove was Rudolf Laban's first assistant when he came to England. She subsequently became movement teacher to Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and has trained several generations of performers.