Rudolph Laban in Paris. A review by André Levinson

Abstract

In September 1925 Laban danced for the first time in Paris, at the Exposition of Decorative Arts, in a half empty theatre. Among the few people who witnessed this event there was André Levinson, a dance critic. His complex review of the event is here used in order to reconstruct Laban’s performance, its context, the controversy it stirrep up and the relations between French and German dance culture.