Rudolf Laban, a fellow Hungarian born in 1849, was a dance artist and theorist whose work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis and other more specific developments in dance notation.
He initially studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became interested in the relationship between the moving human form and the space which surrounds it.
Laban is a way and language for interpreting, describing, visualising and notating all ways of movement. LMA draws on his theories of effort and shape to describe, interpret and document human movement. Used as a tool by dancers, athletes, physical and occupational therapists, it is one of the most widely used systems of human movement analysis.
