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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…

example of the "motation" system (movement + notation) developed by Lawrence Halprin in the 1960's; his theories on the experience of the bodied environment- what we would call the instrumentality of embodiment- elucidated the capacity for movement of bodies, not merely static space or forms, to create landscapes; this was is fundamental to any understanding today of the interest in process and change in the designed environment. - instrumentalism.wordpress.com