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	Benesh movement notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The five lines of the Benesh stave coincide with the head, shoulders, waist, knees and floor (from top to bottom) and additional signs are used to notate the dimension and quality of the movement.
		Benesh movement notation is used in the contexts of physical therapy, choreography documenting, and teaching the Royal Academy of Dance ballet syllabi, and is one of the most widely used dance notation systems in western culture.
		In 1997 The Benesh Institute, international centre for Benesh Movement Notation was amalgamated with the Royal Academy of Dance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benesh_movement_notation (299 words)

	Notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Big O notation, used for example in analysis to represent less significant elements of an expression, to indicate that they will be neglected
		Tensor notation is a general way to represent a gravitational field in general relativity
		Positional notation also known as place-value notation, which each position is related to the next by a multiplier of that numeral system
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notation (334 words)

	Dance Notation Resources Resource for dance studio owners and teachers
		Benesh Movement Notation Is one of the two most widely accepted systems (Labanotation belong the other) used In Britain and much of Europe by the Royal Ballet in London, the Stuttgart, Australian and Munich ballets, the Ballet Rambert and such choreographers as Frederick Ashton and the late John Cranko.
		The author describes it as a work "for those concerned with all aspects of physical education, movement analysis, modern and ethnic dance and remedial work, who feel the need for a movement notation which is precise, simple, economic, fast, universal, and objective as the alphabet.
		This system is one of the most universally used systems of movement notation for the documentation of, education about, and research on human movement.
	www.dancestudio.org /dance_notation (702 words)

	Certificate and Diploma in Benesh Movement Notation —
		Studies include: analysis and recording of a wide variety of solo and multi-person movement; movement reconstruction; creating BMN scores for choreographic works, and the role, and ethical and legal responsibilities of the professional user of notation.
		Benesh Notation is used in a variety of employment fields in education and the arts internationally.
		I found the idea of Benesh Notation fascinating in its own right – the idea of learning to watch and analyse dance in a way that was completely new to me. I think Benesh is an amazing language and I would definitely recommend this course to other students.
	education.rad.org.uk /future/programmes/cdbmn (709 words)

	Dance Notation - Info Provided by Action Dancewear
		Some scholars think the ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics to notate dances but the earliest recorded notations are two Spanish manuscripts of the 15th century in which letter names for well known steps are combined with horizontal and vertical markings.
		Notating such ballets as Giselle, Don Quixote and The Nutcracker will leave future generations of dancers with a record of how these ballets were performed today.
		Benesh Movement Notation uses a five-line music staff and figures that are always drawn looking from behind them.
	e-dancewear.com /Dance_Wear_Ballet_Notation.html (719 words)

	Joan Benesh: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joan Benesh's summary was automatically generated using 1 reference found on the Internet.
		Together they made a formidable team, ensuring the acceptance and growth of notation in the crucial and difficult early years, which any new invention must inevitably go through before it is widely accepted.
		Benesh, R and J, (1956) An Introduction to Benesh Dance Notation, A.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Benesh_Joan_73270856.htm (292 words)

	Great Dance Weblog: Notation and Documentation Archive
		If we create a universal dance notation language that is easy to use and is widely embraced, then we have a marketplace of tens of thousands of dancers who will want to notate their dance works in an accurate, fast manner.
		With no internationally agreed upon means of notating a dance work’s “text” for posterity, the longer a dance lives, particularly beyond the life span of its choreographer, the more new audiences are dependent on whatever care is taken to maintain the choreographer’s intentions.
		In Part II (November 10, 2005), "Dance Notation and Why Dance Pieces are not Documented," I point out that the Labanotation dance notation system used by DNB to document and preserve dance works has only limited value since almost nobody uses it and it is too difficult to master.
	greatdance.com /danceblog/archives/notation_and_documentation (6273 words)

	dance.net - Benesh Movement Notation Introductory Course (79) - Read article: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Tap, ...
		If you have ever wanted to know what Benesh Movement Notation looks like, what it can do and where you can use it, the Benesh Institute is running a five day course which provides a broad overview of the notation.
		The Benesh Institute is the international centre for Benesh Movement Notation, a system of movement notation jointly devised by Rudolf and Joan Benesh and first published in 1956.
		Benesh Movement Notation is a universal language; as it can cross cultural boundaries, so it can also be brought out of the dance world and used to effectively record all human movement.
	www.dance.net /read.html?postid=79 (293 words)

	Dance Technology - Search Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Benesh Institute, The - International center for Benesh Movement Notation.
		Dance Notation Bureau Homepage - The DNB's mission is to record dances in a way that will allow them to be performed.
		Motus Humanus - A professional organization dedicated to the study of human movement in the tradition of movement theorist Rudolf Laban.
	i.1asphost.com /searchamajig/cat.asp?/Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/Dance_Technology/Notation (215 words)

	Dance Movement Notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Both notations can represent the same positions, whether the person is standing with his or her arms positioned by their side or with one of their legs raised in a position with straight legs (à la seconde -- terminology of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, England).
		The approaches for notational representation of human movement are the same, and both systems work on a body menu concept as seen in Figure 2.1.
		However, it is worth noting that as different as the notations appear they both still represent a body moving in three dimensional space.
	www.comp.leeds.ac.uk /royce/research/ugreport/node7.html (277 words)

	\|\| Artscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most popular of the three systems, the Benesh system was copyrighted for England in 1955 and is the conventional five-line music stave, one stave being devoted to one dancer or group of dancers.
		Choreology which is Benesh movement notations are taught at the Institute of Choreology in London, established in 1965.
		It is defined as a scientific and aesthetic study of movements made by Benesh Movement Notation.
	www.dailynews.lk /2006/05/24/art10.asp (628 words)

	Benesh Movement Notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Benesh Movement Notation, invented in England by Joan and Rudolf Benesh in the late 1940's, records movement using marks on a matrix representing the human figure and movement.
		Reading from left to right with floor patterns written below the stave, limb and body movement plotted in the stave and rhythm and phrasing shown above the stave.
		The span of a horizontally extended legs is approximately equal to the body height with arms fully extended above, therefore all possible body positions can be enclosed in a square frame.
	www.comp.leeds.ac.uk /royce/research/ugreport/node8.html (87 words)

	DNB - Notation Publications
		Scrabble is a structured improvisation based on two set phrases of movement, one in the score and one made up by the dancers.
		Choreographed and notated by Georgette Weisz Amowitz, this twenty-five minute work in cantata/drama form is accompanied by carols and celebrates the festival of Christmas.
		As notation strips scroll synchronously with Life Forms animation, the program allows users to hear the music, see the dances, and study the Labanotation in detail.
	dancenotation.org /DNB/books (1704 words)

	Notation
		The Benesh Movement Notation material includes first drafts and copies of master scores.
		The notation documents masterworks including Dark Elegies and Ghost Dances and brief sketches of works that were never realised for example Ken Russell’s Decibels.
		Master scores are lodged at the Benesh Institute, Royal Academy of Dance, where they are registered for copyright.
	www.rambert.org.uk /archive/repertoire/detail.asp?art=1067 (55 words)

	Dance Notation
		Labanotation serves the art of dance much as music notation serves the art of music," Ann Hutchinson.
		Learn the dance notation that will open up a world of unlimited dance step possibilites.
		The debate about the necessity of dance notation is pertinent in an age where it proves quicker and cheaper to record a performance on a Camcorder.
	www.inneans.com /arts/Dance-notation.html (185 words)

	DNB - Dance Notation Bibliography
		Michel, A. "The Oldest Dance Notation." Dance Observer, New York, November 1937.
		London: London: Laban Center for Movement and Dance, 1979: 53-59.
		The Second International Congress on Movement Notation, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 1990: 151-164.
	www.dancenotation.org /DNB/library/bib/notation.html (518 words)

	Dance Notation
		The system cannot notate choreography, but the claim is that the system CAN notate attitude, body posture, etc. and can be useful even as a diagnostic tool in the arena of dance therapy.
		The Benesh Institute is making a unique and valuable contribution to the development of dance.
		Its members practise the system of movement and dance notation originated by Rudolf Laban, known as Kinetography Laban or Labanotation.
	www.shambles.net /pages/learning/performing/notation (538 words)

	Dance notation
		The first computerized notation system, which displayed an animated figure on the screen which performed the dance moves specified by the choreographer, was the DOM dance notation system, created by Eddie Dombroiwer on the Apple II personal computer in 1982.
		The book is good introduction to the development and implementation dance notation systems.
		Henner, D (2003) Transformationen - Bewegung in Notation und digitaler Verarbeitung in Fellsches, J (Ed) Folkwang-Texte Bd.
	www.dcult.com /Dance-(A-G)/Dance_notation.php (506 words)

	Dance notation and software
		I don't think there is any notation (except full written descriptions or videos) that is perfect for all dance forms.
		The modern ballroom notation people have mentioned would not work for the vintage ballroom dances I do, because the figures and terms for those are not standardized, nor are they the same as in modern balroom.
		This notation is visually elegant, clearly conveys the footwork and figures for social dances of that period, and is useless for anything else.
	www.eijkhout.net /rad/dance_offnet/notation.html (1832 words)

	Artifact: Full Record for The Benesh Institute
		Description: The Benesh Institute is an international centre for Benesh Movement Notation (BMN), "a concise, accurate and versatile system for recording all forms of human movement" created and launched by Rudolf Benesh in 1955.
		The Benesh Institute web site provides information about both the Institute and BMN, including explanations of what BMN is, how it works and who uses it.
		There are details of the Certificate and Professional Diploma in BMN offered by the Royal Academy of Dance and about and BMN short courses.
	www.artifact.ac.uk /displayoai.php?id=825 (125 words)

	Tango Theory Page
		Actually I do not believe that this is a bad sign: It is not the notation, but the fundamental system of Tango that is complex.
		My explanation for the discrepancy between the reactions from dancers and non-dancers is that dancers want to match the meaning of the annotations with their experience.
		This might be painful, since usually they manage their skills intuitively, and not on an abstract level.
	www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~bodirsky/tango/index.html (505 words)

	Welcome To The Royal Academy Of Dance Website
		The Benesh Institute is the international centre for Benesh Movement Notation.
		Benesh Movement is a concise, accurate and versatile system for recording all forms of human movement.
		Benesh Congress, 22 and 23 July 2005 Benesh Movement Notation’s 50th Anniversary Party
	www.rad.org.uk /15benesh (71 words)

	Rhonda Ryman's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She currently teaches courses in Dance History and Appreciation, and offers a correspondence course, Dance 241 - Benesh Notation 1, in Benesh Movement Notation through Distance Education, University of Waterloo.
		She has worked in conjuction with the University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Laboratory and The Benesh Institute, London, England, directing a project to create MacBenesh, an editor for Benesh Movement Notation.
		Rhonda's current research project is the compilation of a multi-media dictionary of classical ballet terminology including word descriptions, Benesh and Laban notation, and Life Forms animation.
	www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca /~rsryman (146 words)

	Frederick Ashton, 'Following Sir Fred's Steps', Introduction
		Information provided by the Benesh Institute, the international centre for Benesh Movement Notation.
		The Institute provides dance companies and choreographers with an efficient and accurate system of notation for the professional recording and revival of dance repertoire, and houses over 400 scores in its library of choreographic scores and related material.
		There is a special agreement for the educational use of scores, and permission may be granted to use specified scores for study purposes.
	www.ballet.co.uk /followingsirfred/following_sir_fred_appendix_i_ashton_in_benesh.htm (206 words)

	Beguide Internet Directory : Arts : Performing Arts : Dance : Dance Technology : Notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Part of Julie Charlotte Van Camp's dissertation on issues regarding notation and changes in a choreographer's work.
		A Laban notation editor for the Macintosh developed by the Ohio State Department of Dance.
		A professional organization dedicated to the study of human movement in the tradition of movement theorist Rudolf Laban.
	www.beguide.com /index.php?c=Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/Dance_Technology/Notation (169 words)

	Notation Dance Technology Dance Performing Arts Arts
		- A Laban notation editor for the Macintosh developed by the Ohio State Department of Dance.
		The DNB documents on paper using a symbol system called Labanotation.
		- A simple computer editor for Labanotation - a human movement script widely taught and used around the world.
	iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/Dance_Technology/Notation (91 words)

	Category:Dance notation - Definition, explanation
		Recording dance movement on paper in a system called Labanotation.
		Links in areas underserved by other listings from research to notation to the most comprehensive linkings to university dance departments.
		Charlotte Van Camp's dissertation on issues regarding notation and changes in a choreographer's work.
	lexikon.calsky.com /en/txt/cat/dance_notation.php (325 words)

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