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dance notation
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Comparison of the Laban and Benesh systems. (A) Stand with the feet together. (B) Step forward on …
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Written recording of dance movements. The earliest notation, in the late 15th century, consisted of letter-symbols. Several attempts were made in later centuries to describe dance steps, but no unified system combined both rhythm and steps until the 1920s, when Rudolf Laban devised his system of Labanotation. In the 1950s, the competing system of Benesh notation, or “choreology,” devised by Rudolf and Joan Benesh, came into use.



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In these instances, dance does not give ultimate form to a choreographic notation but insists on its meaning as unfinished and ongoing, open to any number of subsequent interpretations and permutations.
"Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002"; Los Angeles ... by Allen, Gwen / Artforum International
These she obtained from Petipa's last regisseur, Nicholas Sergeyev, who had left Russia with a whole set of choreographic notations packed in a large trunk.
Attitudes by Barnes, Clive / Dance Magazine
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