Last Tuesday I was tasked to teach an old dance by ACTS manila to its new company members. So for days I viewed the video again and again and put down my observations and analysis in Benesh dance notation. Maybe its just my inexperience with dance notation, but it seemed that a lot of information was slipping through the cracks. A lot of contemporary positions were difficult to render. When it came to the time I was teaching the stuff, I ended up referring the video again and again. I wished there some plasma mounts were in the studio so I’d have a bigger screen to view the dance from. I had to work with a computer lying on the floor. Another thing I wished was to have taken some time to learn Laban notation and put in my notes in that format instead.
Tags: Dance Notation
