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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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Lynne Weber, the board chairman of the Dance Notation Bureau, which fosters the use of Labanotation, says that both dance notation and video recording have their strengths and weaknesses.
Step, lines, and videotape: using DVDs and videos to learn repertoire by Carman, Joseph / Dance Magazine
Yet his collection of pencil and pen drawings, more than twenty of which were exhibited here alongside his better-known dance notations, does manage to surprise.
MERCE CUNNINGHAM by Goldberg, RoseLee / Artforum International
The fall concert at Hofstra University brought past to present, preserving modern dance history with the Jean Erdman Dance Notation Project.
A noteworthy project by Macel, Emily / Dance Magazine
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