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Rudolf Laban (1879-1953) was born in Austro-Hungary. Laban became interested in the relationship between the moving human form and the space which surrounds it. He was a dancer, a choreographer and a dance / movement scholar. Laban was the first person to develop community dance and he set out to reform the role of dance education, emphasizing his belief that dance should be made available to everyone.
Laban believed that movement enables a man to recognize his physical potential and that movement also describes man. The expression and quality used in ones movement was acknowledged by Laban as Effort. The closest translation of Effort in German is "Antrieb." The definition of Effort is the outer manifestation of an inner impulse to move. Effort is also described as movement dynamic. Effort is divided into four different effort factors. Laban used these four factors to depict the way that individuals applied Effort. The four Effort factors are Space, Time, Weight, and Flow. Each of......

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