Laban Movement Analysis is an approach developed by Rudolf Laban for observing, describing, and interpreting human movement. It can be applied to anything from simple gestures to complex actions. Rudolf Laban was a Hungarian dancer, choreographer, and movement theorist who developed Labanotation, a system for dance notation. He helped raise dance to the status of an art form and is considered the father of modern dance theory. Laban Movement Analysis describes elements of effort like action, time, weight, and space to characterize different types of movement.