Appendix
I am bad at remembering names. In an effort to get better at doing so, I have compiled a list of each person who’s work has influenced me and this research of mine.
Diane Ackerman
Writer
John Adams
Contemporary Composer
John Luther Adams
Contemporary Composer
Thomas Adès
Contemporary Composer
Timo Andres
Contemporary Composer
Paulo de Assis
Writer on scores
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Lesley Barber
Contemporary Composer
Irmgard Bartenieff
introduced Laban’s system to the U.S.
Roland Barthes
Writer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
David Behrman
Writer on scores
Leonard Bernstein
Contemporary Composer
Nadia Boulanger
Conductor
Pierre Boulez
Conductor
Johannes Brahms
Composer
Benjamin Britten
Composer
Earle Brown
Writer on scores
Carter Burwell
Contemporary Composer
Frances Butler
Writer
John Cage
Contemporary Composer
Cornelius Cardew
Writer on scores
Stuart Chase
Writer on scores
Frédéric Chopin
Composer
John Cochran
Writer
Kathleen Coessens
Writer on scores
Colleen Cotter
Writer
Jeremy Cox
Writer on scores
Gillian Crowther
Writer
Colin Davis
Conductor
Claude Debussy
Composer
John Dewey
Writer
Gustavo Dudamel
Conductor
Stuart Paul Duncan
Writer on scores
Bob Dylan
Writer on scores
Thom Eagle
Writer
John Evarts
Writer on scores
Brian Ferneyhough
Writer on scores
M.F.K. Fisher
Writer
János Fügedi
Writer on choreology
Philip Glass
Contemporary Composer
James Gleick
Writer
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Composer
Maria Grandy
Former DNB board chair who was also the first ballet mistress to learn Labanotation
Seth Godin
Writer
Ann Hutchinson Guest
Dance
Harry Halbreich
Writer on scores
Fernau Hall
Writer on choreology
George Frideric Handel
Composer
Joseph Haydn
Composer
Lisa Heldke
Writer
Dan Herbison-Evans
Writer on choreology
Hanya Holm
Choreographer
Nicola Humble
Writer
Tim Ingold
Writer
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor
Alicia Kennedy
Writer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Writer
Carlos Kleiber
Conductor
Rudolph Laban
Hungarian dancer and theorist
Jaron Lanier
Writer
Harald Lemke
Writer
György Ligeti
Contemporary Composer
Eugene Loring
Choreographer of the first ballet to be recorded in the U.S. using Laban’s notation system
Mei-Chen Lu
Writer on choreology
Lorin Maazel
Conductor
Stephen Malinowski
Conductor
John Martin
Dance critic for the New York Times
Zubin Mehta
Conductor
Meredith Monk
Contemporary Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Anaïs Nin
Writer
Donald Norman
Writer on scores
Richard Olney
Writer
Eugene Ormandy
Conductor
Irma Otte-Betz
introduced Laban’s system to the U.S.
Seiji Ozawa
Conductor
Nicola Perullo
Writer
Janey Price
Dance
Péter Rajka
Hungarian choreographer
Simon Rattle
Conductor
Steve Reich
Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer
Paul Roberts
Writer on scores
Helen Priest Rogers
Dance
Supriya Roychoudhury
Writer
Kaija Saariaho
Writer on scores
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Contemporary Composer
Robert Schumann
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Howard Skempton
Writer on scores
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
Writer
Wadada Leo Smith
Writer on scores
Georg Solti
Conductor
Richard Strauss
Composer
Igor Stravinsky
Composer
Leopold Stokowski
Conductor
Patrick Suppes
Writer
George Szell
Conductor
Janet Theophano
Writer
Arturo Toscanini
Conductor
Muriel Topaz
Writer of the Elementary Labanotation: A Study Guide
Bob Valgenti
Writer
Lucy Venable
The president of the Dance Notation Bureau for sometime and eventually associated with Ohio State University for the education and research in the dance department.
Antonio Vivaldi
Composer
Richard Wagner
Composer
John L. Waters
Writer on scores
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer
John Woolrich
Writer on scores