(Laban was a bit of a Nazi choreographer)

If anyone's interested in the other kind of choreographic programming, here's a journal article I recently wrote with Kate Sicchio https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-drama-review/article/live-notation-for-patterns-of-movement/CD9BC7EF97B132E90F71F078A3EA2F8E

Not to dismiss his work, just good to acknowledge these things. From my paper with Kate: "Reviewing related historical and contemporary approaches to movement notation allowed us to reflect upon and bring together the different histories of code and choreography. A key reference point in the representation and notation of human exertion as effort can be found in Effort: Economy in Body Movement written by choreographer Rudolf Laban in collaboration with management consultant F.C. Lawrence in 1947. The book proposes a systematic, seemingly elegant way to categorize human efforts in movement, through a combination of elements such as time, weight, and space. Effort is as applicable to industrial time-and-motion studies as it is to dance choreography. We should also note that Laban’s earlier work was as choreographer for Hitler and Goebbels, until his work on the 1936 Olympic games was rejected (the Nazis rejecting Laban, rather than vice versa). While this theory arose from white supremacy and Fordism, it continues to be influential in choreographic research and practice."

I do enjoy his work on efforts etc though. I just think it's a shame when references begin and end with a single problematic white male so often.. Ignoring much longer and richer histories

(sorry for the topic drift)