This article examines Rudolf Laban's theory of dance as it developed in his written and stage works from 1919 to 1926. Specifically, it shows how Laban defined dance as a form of positive liberty, which provided the anchor of what I label as his “embodied conservatism,” a conceptual and practical orientation of movement toward the goal of reshaping society according to principles of harmony as universal law. Bridging the history of dance with the history of political thought, I argue that Laban's theory of dance offered a theory of politics in response to social and political fracture during the Weimar Republic.

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鲁道夫拉班的具体保守主义，1919-1926

本文考察了鲁道夫·拉班在 1919 年至 1926 年的书面和舞台作品中发展的舞蹈理论。具体来说，它展示了拉班如何将舞蹈定义为一种积极自由的形式，这为我称之为他的“体现的保守主义”提供了锚点,” 一个概念性和实践性的方向，根据作为普遍法则的和谐原则，朝着重塑社会的目标迈进。将舞蹈史与政治思想史联系起来，我认为拉班的舞蹈理论提供了一种政治理论，以应对魏玛共和国时期的社会和政治分裂。