Labanotation
ラバノーテーション / 1928– / Style / Notation Systems
A notation that turns bodily movement into one vertical staff read from the bottom upward. The shape of a symbol carries direction, its shading carries level, its length carries duration, and its position across the staff says which part of the body moves.
Symbols stacked without gaps on a vertical staff read from the bottom upward / Symbol shapes giving nine directions, with the centre line separating right from left / Shading inside each symbol standing for low, middle or high level / Symbol length equal to duration, with tick marks for beats and bar lines crossing the staff
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Recording choreography so it can be revived without the original cast · Analyzing movement in comparable symbols rather than on video
- Type
- Direction in symbol shape, level in shading, sizes held constant
- Composition
- Time climbs from the bottom, one column for each body part
- Material
- Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge
- Caution
- Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance.
- Further study
- Feuillet notation, 1700 / Rudolf Laban / comparison with Benesh notation
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