Dance Notation
舞踊譜 / 1700– / 1928 Laban / Style / Notation Systems
The lineage of fixing bodily movement to paper, from Feuillet's Baroque dance scores to Labanotation, whose vertical staff folds weight, direction and time into a single column — an alphabet of movement.
Time climbing a vertical staff / Columns of direction symbols / Body parts as columns / Trajectory abstracted
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Feuillet notation, 1700 / Rudolf Laban / comparison with Benesh notation