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Notes
1. McCaw’s JHA references (John Hodgson Archives), based on Leeds University Brotherton Library, are undoubtedly a rich source of untapped material. Unfortunately, when they are referred to under the blanket heading of JHA they fail to identify the primary source material found. An example is my own thesis, which bears the reference JHA and does not cite the primary source. See also: Curl, G. 2002. ‘Laban’s Philosophic Foundations Revisited’ in Order or Chaos? Guildford: Labanotation Institute, University of Surrey.
2. See Dearden, R. F. (1968). The Philosophy of Primary Education. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Chapter 3.
3. By contrast, one might compare the wealth of expression marks (over 70) in music, involving tempo, dynamics, style, articulation and clarity.
4. Such comments may be compared to Preston-Dunlop’s review of choreutics in 1966 when she stated: ‘While it must be of interest to all students of movement and dance, for whom it is intended, I admit to serious doubts as to whether it will be comprehensible to them … it is full of statements which are not backed up by data or argument and rather vague references to such things as ancient and oriental forms’ (Preston-Dunlop 1966).
5. See Lodge, R.C. (1953). Plato’s Theory of Art. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
6. Susanne Langer in her Feeling and Form refers to Laban’s ‘mystic metaphysics that is at best fanciful, and at worst rapturously sentimental’ (1953:186).
7. See Laban Guild Magazine May 1959 p.29.
8. See Laban, R. (1920), 38, World of the Dancer. Stuttgart: Walter Seifert.
9. See Laban, R. (1926), 115, Gymnastics and Dance. Oldenburg: Stalling.
10. Undoubtedly the crystal of all crystals for Laban is the icosahedron upon which he bases his scales of movement.
11. Here, we return to the dance of the Dervishes, the ‘dance of the spheres around God’.
12. ‘Choreology’ was for Laban ‘the logic or science of circles’, Choreutics 1966, p.i, whereas for Preston-Dunlop today, choreology is ‘the scholarly study of dance’ Dance and the Performative 2002, p.1–a major transposition?