Dance notation
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Dance notation is the
Usage
The primary uses of dance notation are historical dance preservation through documentation and analysis (e.g., in ethnochoreology) or reconstruction of choreography, dance forms, and technical exercises. Dance notation systems also allow for dance works to be documented and therefore potentially copyrighted.
Two popular dance notation systems used in
Many dance notation systems are designed for specific types of dance. Some examples include Shorthand Dance Notation for dances from Israel, Morris Dance Notation for Morris dance, and Beauchamp–Feuillet Notation for Baroque dance. As a result, these systems usually cannot effectively describe other types of dance.
History
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Valerie Sutton in a dance pose...
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...and its corresponding "Sutton DanceWriting" notation
In the 1680s, Pierre Beauchamp invented a dance notation system for Baroque dance. His system, known as Beauchamp–Feuillet notation, was published in 1700 by Raoul Auger Feuillet and used to record dances throughout the eighteenth century.
A well-known collection of dance scores is the
In 1934, the composer Joseph Schillinger created a highly accurate notation system based on the 3D bone rotation and translation of a moving dancer.[1] With motion capture technology half a century in the future, there was no way to effectively measure and record this information at the time.
In 1948, Hanya Holm became the first Broadway choreographer to have her dance scores copyrighted, for her work on Kiss Me, Kate.
In 1951, Stanley D. Kahn published Kahnotation, a dance notation system specific to tap dance.
In 1956, Rudolf and Joan Benesh first published Benesh Movement Notation, a written system for recording human movement. It is most widely used in the recording and restaging of dance works.[2]
In 1958, Eshkol and Wachman published an exposition of their movement notation.[3]
In 1969, Romanian choreographer Theodor Vasilescu published a dance notation system for Romanian folk dances.[4]
In the 1970s, North Korean choreographer U Chang-sop developed a system of dance notation for Korean dance called the Chamo System of Dance Notation, which uses pictorially based symbols.[5]
In 1975,
In 1982, the first computerized notation system—the DOM (Dance on Microprocessor) dance notation system—was created by Eddie Dombrower for the Apple II personal computer.[6] The system displayed an animated figure on the screen that performed dance moves specified by the choreographer.
In 2017, Felipe Hsieh created Tango Notation, a dance notation system specific to Argentine tango.
See also
- Action stroke dance notation
- Motif description, a subset of Labanotation
References
- S2CID 62206676. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "Benesh International: Benesh Movement Notation". Royal Academy of Dance. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ Eshkol, Noa; Wachman, Avraham (1958). Movement notation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- ^ "Twentieth-century developments". Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2 October 2016). "Dance notation". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ Forrest, Juliet (1986). "Field Report: A Choreographer's Assessment of the DOM Notation System". Dance Notation Journal (Fall): 47–48.
Further reading
- Cage, J. and Knowles, A. (1973) Notations. Reprint Services Corp. ISBN 0-685-14864-5
- Drewes, Henner (2003) Transformationen – Bewegung in Notation und digitaler Verarbeitung in Fellsches, J (Ed) Folkwang-Texte Bd. 18. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen. ISBN 3-89924-057-X
- ISBN 90-5700-003-2
- Kahn, Stanley D. (1951). "presenting Kahnotation: the K-Symbols for writing Tap Dancing"
- Neagle, R.J. and Ng, K.C. (July 2003) Machine-representation and visualisation of a dance notation in Proceedings of electronic imaging and the visual arts. London
- U Chang-sop (1988). The Chamo System of Dance Notation. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. OCLC 500236112.
- Felipe Hsieh (May 2018) Initial Tango - INITIAL TANGO: the tango ideogam writing system. ISBN 9781980737018
- Felipe Hsieh (July 2020) TANGOBOOK: Dance Notation of The Classic Tango. ISBN 9798669531782
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