CREATIVE DANCE BLOG

 1n 1928,  Laban published his kinetographie . This and subsequent expositions of his system for recording dance have made possible the collection of a literature and materials for dance. The system is logical since it is based upon fundamental laws of human motor activity . It's functional since it has been used to record dance and non-dance movement in many styles including balle , gymnastics , exercises, time motion studies in industry , movements of spastic patients to medical records and national dance styles ranging from the subtle movements of the dances of India to the improvisations in America jazz dance . The actual notation signs are abstract in design differing in shape from Feulliet symbols . In principle, however, Laban avows in his book: Principles of Dance and Movement Notation (1956), that: " Our movement and dance notation makes use of the principles on which Beauchamp and Feulliet's choreography was built up some 300 years ago. The graphic principl...

 Those indications were found in a 15th century Brussels manuscript of basses danses(published in 1912 by Ernest Closson) and in notations of similar dances by the dance masters Stribaldi (1517) of Turin, Italy and Arena (1519). They also appeared in Robert Copelande's English translation of a French textbook(1521), in the better known Orchesographie by Thoinot Arbeau (1588) and in John Playford's , The English Dancing Master(1651). Playford added the abstract signs o and ) for men and women. Note: the o has a little dot in it. BEAUCHAMP -FEUILLET SYSTEM  In 1666, by an act of the French Parliament, Beauchamp, who is credited with being the first to classify the basic forms and steps of dancing was also recognized as the inventor of a dance notation. This was published in 1700 by Raoul Auger Feulliet under the title of Choreographie ou l'art de decrire la danse. Famous ballet masters of the period: Jean Phillipe Rameau, Louis Fecourt, Sieur Isaac d'Orleans; Kelloun Toml...

 Dance notation is an alphabet of symbols for the writing of dance. The most functional system invented by Rudolf Von Laban and developed by Albrecht Knust during the first half of the 20th century, has been used extensively to record movements of the human body in many styles. These dance scores can be reconstructed and interpreted like music score can be read.  The symbols indicate precise analysis of body movement from the most basic motor activities such as walking, running, skipping and so on, to the most complex combination of structural elements in choreography, spatial design, rhythmic configurations, dynamic variations of dramatic movement (realized through training in exertion and in control of energy) are created on a complete dance score.  EARLY SYSTEMS The earliest known dance script, found in the Municipal Archives of Cervera Catalonia, Spain was written about 1455 and employs five abstract signs: (- l l 3 9). The two most significant systems of dance notati...