Reviews of Laban Performances

Box 2

Folder 14

Item 10. Pictures and Press Comment on Laban’s Don Juan. Original document. A3 printed on both sides. Translated in The Art of Movement, pp.187 – 189

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Box 3 

Folder 25

Item 1.    9 reviews of Laban’s performances in Mannheim between November and December 1921. Some (like No 2) seem to be about illustrated talks Laban gave, this one on Theatre, Art and Science. Others were performances of Tanz und Pantomime (3, 4, 5, 6). All photocopies. 

Folder 26

Item 1.    Review of Laban’s performances in Scena, Zagreb 21 May 1924

Item 3.    6 pages with original reviews from their tour in Poland between 1 - 14 February, 1928. The reverse of the pages is publicity about Laban and Löser’s Wagner tour of 1924/5.

Folder 27

Item 1.    21 pages of photocopied reviews of two tours. The first went out in February-March 1922. Morgenseier: Der Tanz. It visited Stuttgart (Würt.Landestheater), Bremen, Hamburg. The second tour went out in mid-October through to December 1922 with Fausts Erlösung, Hannover, Hamburg in December where they played Der Schwingende Tempel along with Fausts Erlösung. He also gave an illustrated talk, Kunst, Science and Life reviewed in the Hamburg Echo on 13 December ’22. 

Item 2 – 3. 18 more pages of photocopied reviews from 1922 into 1923. There were performances in Hamburg in March ’23, Oldenburg in April, Hamburg in May, Stuttgart in July, Hamburg in September and November.

Item 4    More reviews of performances in 1924 - 1925

Prometheus, Hamburg 24.01.1924

2 reviews from Zagreb May 1924

1 review in the National Theatre (probably Zagreb)  21.05.1924

1 review ‘Zagreb, Mai, June, August 1924’

1 review ‘Zagreb, 24 V 1924’

Agamemnon’s Tod ‘Juni 1924’

‘Hamburger 8 Uhr Abendblatt 17 Nov 1924’

‘Zagreb 24 July, Hamb 24 Nov’ 

 

Item 5.    ‘Frankfurt xxx Saison 1924 – 1925’

Agamemnon’s Tod ‘8uhr Abendblatt (1925?)’

Kammertanzgruppe. Reviews from Basel and St Galen (Switzerland)

What seems to be a 7 page-long article about Bereska’s Kammertansgruppe’s Autumn ’25 performances in Switzerland.

7 8 pages of reviews of performance in 1926

8 3 short reviews from 1926 on one page

9 Alltag und Fest a review from the Mannheim Choral Celebration ‘Volksstimme Mannheim 24.6.1929’ See Folder 30, Item 29

10 Two reviews from Poland Bydgoszcz and Katowice

Folder 28

Item 1.    4 pages of reviews dated ‘1925?’

Item 2.    Review of Laban’s Walpurgisnacht ’15.11.1930’

Item 3.    6 pages of reviews of Don Juan from 1926/7 [c.f. Box 9, Folder 96: Translations of Articles about Don Juan in 1926]

Folder 30

Item 1.    Review of the first dancer’s congress in Magdeburg in ‘Freiburger Zeitung im Breisgau 7 Juli 1927’ Original

Item 2.    Review in ‘Hamburger Fremdenblatt, abendsausgab, No.332, 1 December 1927’

Items 3 – 9. 7 reviews, all originals of touring dates in December 1927 and Spring 1928

No item No.  Review of a performance in Kiel 6 December 1927 Original

Items 10 – 14. 5 reviews, all originals of touring dates in December 1927 and Spring 1928

Items 17 – 18. Photocopies of reviews of touring dates in December 1927 and Spring 1928

Items 19 – 28. 10 reviews, all originals of touring dates in December 1927 and Spring 1928

Item 29. Original of article on Alltag und Fest, see Folder 27, Item 9 for photocopy

Item 31. An article with photos on Lay Dance

Unnumbered     10 photocopied pages of reviews from 1928

Unnumbered    Article Laban in Plauen, Tuesday 8. February no year.

Folder 31

Item 1. Colour Photograph of the Vienna Parade of 1929 in ‘Hamburger Fremdenblatt 13.VI.29’ Original 

Item 2.    ‘The Dance Congress in Magdeburg by Fred Hildenbrandt in Berliner Tagblatt 30 June 1927 Original 

Item 3.    Photocopy of review 8- 9 February 1928

Item 4. Performance in Jena, no date, Original

Item 5.    Publicity for Laban’s Gymnastik und Tanz and Des Kindes Tanz und Gymnastik. Original

Item 6. Image from Die Grunen in the Neue Berliner 19 May 1928. Original

Item 7.    Image in unknown newspaper ’13.1.28’ Original

Item 8.    Image in unknown newspaper in Dusseldorf Original

Item 9. Review 8- 9 February 1928 [    Original of Item 3]

Item 10. Review of performance in Katowice ‘15.2.28’ Original

Item 11. Review of performance in Poland ‘8.2.28’ Original

Item 12. Der Festzug, Labans Wiener Experiment – Heinrich Eduard Jacob in Berliner Tageblatt 19 06 1929 [Original of Item 11 Folder 27]. Original [C.f. Box 10, Folder 100 for translation by M. Luddington] 

Item 13. Swiss newspaper – article about a workshop given by Hans Zulig 12 08 1949 original

Item 14. Scrap of newspaper with a photo of Laban Original

Item 15. Article by Fritz Böhme about Laban undated Original

Item 16. Article about Laban by Dr Buchholy ‘1930/31’ – when Laban was at the Stadtsoper Original

Item 17. Article by Alfred Schlee ‘Der Fall Laban’ (The Case of Laban) November 1932 Original

Item 18. Double page article in German, Schweizer Illustrierte 06 02 1954, with very good photos of Laban at the AMS in Addlestone  Original

Folder 32

Item 8    Publicity for Labangarten

Item10. 6-page selection of press for Laban productions: Die Geblendeten, Himmel und Erde, Venusberg Bacchanale, Tanzabende – performances in Stuttgart and Mannheim, so possibly 1920/21?

Item 13. Review of Laban’s Polovtsian Dances at the Staatsoper, October 1930

Item 35. Publicity for the Magdeburg Dancer’s Congress, 1927

Item 38. Press Comment on Narrenspiegel date given 1929

Item 40. Very faint photocopy of Laban’s Summer Course in Rangsdorf (could be 1934 or ’35).

Folder 33

Items 1 – 4. Reviews of Laban in Zurich in 1914 and 1916. All originals and in a very fragile state. 

Item 5.    Review of Laban in Zurich April 1916 Original

Item 7.    ‘The Unholy Laban’, review in ‘Leipziger Volkszeitung 2.7.27 a review of the Magdeburg Congress

Item 8.    Review by Artur Michel of the Essen Congress, 3 July 1928 original

Item 9.    ‘Der Tänzerkongress in Essen’, in Essener Allgemeine Zeitung Nr 300, 27.6.28 Unnumbered    An article about Laban and ‘Pantomime’ 1916

Item 13.  Small article about the Labanschule in Zurich pencilled date ’26.VI.17’ original

Item 14. Little Chronicle. A review of the Laban School in Zurich. Date pencilled in ‘1917’ original

Item 15. Another article about the Laban School in the Zuricher Zeitung 13.11.1917 original

Item 16. About the Laban School in Locarno. 25.8.1917 original

Item 17. Another small notice about the Laban School 11.Aug.1917 original

Folder 34

Item 12. Der Festzug, Labans Wiener Experiment – Heinrich Eduard Jacob [Original of Item 11 Folder 27, see Box 10, Folder 100 for translation by M. Luddington]

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Box 9

Folder 89

Review of The Magic Lighter and The Golden Apples at Toynbee Hall in Times Educational Supplement 03 04 1948 Original

Folder 96

Translations of Articles about Don Juan in 1926

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Box 10

Folder 100

Translation by M. Luddington of ‘The Pageant – Laban’s Vienna Experiment’ by Heinrich Eduard Jacob in Berliner Tageblatt 19 06 1929

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Box 11

Folder 119

Photocopy of the brochure for the Vienna Festzug 1929

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Box 12

Folder 133

Typescript of 7 reviews of Agamemnon plus photocopy of the German texts

Review by O. Pander in (handwritten Hamburger Abendblatt ‘1925’) 2 copies

Review in (handwritten Hamburger Abendblatt ‘1925’) 2 copies

Review in (handwritten Hamburger Abendblatt ‘1925’) 2 copies

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Box 29

Folder 214

3 translated articles about Laban performances in Mannheim in 1921, no German originals 

Folder 216

3 pages of edited highlights from reviews of performances in 1922, English Translation only.

Folder 217

18 reviews of performances between 1922 and 1928 all Originals