View of Around the World in a Folly Garden: Dancing 'Round the Ruins, on view at Toronto's WARC Gallery May 4 - June 3, 2006. PHOTO: Frank Nagy.
Dance notation
These images employ a notation system invented by Raoul-Auger Feuillet that revolutionised the dance world.
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These images employ a notation system invented by Raoul-Auger Feuillet that revolutionised the dance world.
Full page diagrams; at the head of each, the tune for the dance figure is represented
Dance notation has always been a tricky proposition—how do you put motion on paper? Anna Heyward on its history, and Remy Charlip’s elegant solution.
Abstract Dance transposed to a notated form elucidates the importance of human movement in designed spaces. Our paper addresses two specific systems of notation: Beauchamp-Feuillet notation (developed at the behest of King Louis XIV in 1662), and Motation (developed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in 1965). Both systems are examples of the close relationship between…
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I was at Zhou Liang’s rehearsal today, and saw exactly what Rebecca Loukes calls the “cat’s cradle”: a long length of elastic that the dancers weave and interweave into changing p…
In addition to my title as a Registered-Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT), I am also a Graduate Laban-Certified Movement Analyst (GL-CMA). What do all those letters mean, you ask? Good question. The short answer is that I am well versed in the work of Rudolf von Laban, Irmgard Bartenieff, Warren Lamb, Carol-Lynne Moore, and Peggy Hackney. The…
