Posts Tagged ‘Dance Notation’

Dance Notation

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

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.