Zweig’s memoir chronicles the descent into dystopia and the multiple displacements triggered by war — features of the life of his generation that also impacted Rudolf Laban. Yet there is another side to the history of this period, one captured in Larraine Nicolas’s chronicle, Dancing in Utopia.
The book focuses on Dartington Hall, a rural estate in southwest England purchased by the wealthy Elmhirsts in 1925. The couple aimed to create a community where industry and agriculture were carried out scientifically and where the arts would be available to all workers.… Read More