# Dance Notation (舞踊譜)

> 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.

- IndexStyle No.427 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/dance-notation
- Kind: Style · Family: Notation Systems · Era: 1700– / 1928 Laban
- Mood: Technology, Calm, Rebellion
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Time climbing a vertical staff
- Columns of direction symbols
- Body parts as columns
- Trajectory abstracted

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Time climbing a vertical staff
- [ ] Columns of direction symbols
- [ ] Body parts as columns
- [ ] Trajectory abstracted
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Graphic Notation (図形楽譜)** — The scores Cage and Cardew drew when they abandoned the staff: shapes, lines, map-like pages. Opening performance to interpretation rather than instruction, the score itself became visual art. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/graphic-notation
- **Bauhaus Stage (バウハウスの舞台)** — Schlemmer's stage workshop translated the body into geometry. The spheres and cones of the Triadic Ballet costumes made the human dance as a form in space — the origin point of performance art. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/bauhaus-stage

## Further study

- Feuillet notation, 1700
- Rudolf Laban
- comparison with Benesh notation

## Reference works

- ラバノーテーションの譜面（CC BY-SA 2.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myriam%20Gourfink%20(5925927642).jpg

## Source of record

- Dance Notation Bureau — https://www.dancenotation.org/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/dance-notation
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/dance-notation/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

フイエのバロック舞踊譜からラバノーテーションまで、身体の動きを紙に固定する挑戦の系譜。ラバンの縦軸記譜は、重さ・方向・時間を一本の柱に畳み込む動きのアルファベット。

特徴: 縦軸を上る時間／方向記号の柱／身体部位のカラム／軌跡の抽象化
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。