| Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a consultant and researcher at Trinity Laban, a practical dance scholar and lecturer, and author of numerous books including the award winning Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinarty Life. She received her early training from Laban, Lisa Ullmann, Kurt Jooss and Albrecht Knust and after a short performing career went on to pioneered practice as part of her doctoral studies. Always an innovator, she introduced Motif Writing and developed Choreological Perspectives as a way of looking at dance and dance making from the practitioners view point. Her current research interests are sacred geometry in human movement, re-finding and re-creating Laban’s dance works of the 1920s, and devising interactive mapping methods for documenting creative procedures, in the first instance for William Forsythe’s multimedia dance theatre work The Loss of Small Detail. |
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| POSITION: |
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Consultant, Hon. Research Fellow, Trinity Laban, London. |
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| QUALIFICATIONS: |
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Laban Diploma, 1950. |
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Advanced Diploma of Education (London), 1977. |
| MA (London) Movement Studies (Dance) (dist), 1978. |
| PhD Choreology (CNAA), 1981. |
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| EMPLOYMENT: |
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Dancer with British Dance Theatre, 1949 - 52. |
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Research Ass. Albrecht Knust, Folkwanghochchule, Essen, 1951 - 52. |
| Costumier, Festival Ballet; Composition School of Russian Ballet, 1952 - 53. |
| Dance Faculty, Art of Movement Studio, 1953 - 53. |
| Senior Lecturer in Dance, Dartford College of P.E., 1955 - 62. |
| Visiting Specialist in Dance to Colleges of Ed., 1962 - 65. |
| Director, Beechmont Movement Study Centre, 1965 - 71. |
| Senior Lecturer, Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, 1978 - 95. |
| Devised and led MA Advanced Laban Studies, 1980. |
| Devised and led MA Education in Dance, 1982. |
| Devised and led MA Choreological Studies, 1987. |
| Devised and led MA European Dance Theatre Practice, 2003. |
| Consultant, Hon. Research Fellow, Trinity Laban, 1995 - date. |
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