Books by Jean MacColl

JEAN MACCOLL is better known by her maiden name, Jean Newlove. After studying with the great dance and movement innovator, Rudolf Laban, she began a long association as an accomplished choreographer with the director Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop. Her marriage to the playwright and folk-singer Ewan MacColl ended soon after Kirsty was born. Singlehandedly bringing up her two children, Hamish and Kirsty, as a working mother in the 1960s, she established an international reputation for her expertise in dance and movement theory that remains much in demand. The author of two widely praised books, Laban for Actors and Dancers and (with John Dalby) Laban for All (Nick Hern Books), she lives in London, from where she continues to publicise and co-ordinate (with Fred Shortland) the Justice for Kirsty campaign.