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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808031903321

Autore

Guest Ann Hutchinson

Titolo

Labanotation : the system of analyzing and recording movement / / Ann Hutchinson Guest ; illustrated by Doug Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-96643-3

0-203-62612-5

1-136-08666-8

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (500 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonDoug

Disciplina

792.8/2

792.82

Soggetti

Labanotation

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Dance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Labanotation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THE NEW EDITION; PREFACE BY STEPHANIE JORDAN; 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF DANCE NOTATION; 2 INTRODUCTION TO LABANOTATION; 3 THE APPROACH TO MOVEMENT NOTATION; 4 FUNDAMENTALS OF LABANOTATION; 5 VARIATIONS IN STEPS; 6 POSITIONS OF THE FEET; 7 AERIAL STEPS (SPRINGING); 8 TURNS; 9 ARM GESTURES; 10 LEG GESTURES; 11 SPACE MEASUREMENT;  FLEXION, EXTENSION; 12 FLOOR PATTERNS, PATHS; 13 TOUCH AND SLIDE FOR THE LEGS; 14 PARTS OF THE LIMBS; 15 PARTS OF THE TORSO;  INCLUSIONS; 16 TILTING (INCLINING)

17 TURNING (ROTATION) OF THE LIMBS18 ROTATION OF THE TORSO AND HEAD; 19 SPECIFIC FLEXION AND EXTENSION;  CONTRACTING, BENDING; 20 RELATIONSHIP; 21 REPEAT AND ANALOGY SIGNS; 22 SCORING; 23 SUPPORTING ON VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY; 24 EQUILIBRIUM, LOSS OF BALANCE; 25 SYSTEMS OF REFERENCE; 26 VARIATIONS IN POSITIONS, PATHS, AND STEPS; 27 SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE LIMBS;  MOVEMENTS OF HANDS;  MANNER OF PERFORMING GESTURES; 28 TYPES OF REVOLUTIONS;  DYNAMICS;  MISCELLANEOUS;



APPENDICES; A ALTERNATE VERSIONS; B OLD VERSIONS; C ORTHOGRAPHY AND AUTOGRAPHY; D UPPER BODY MOVEMENT; E TERMINOLOGY

GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLSINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies, Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition, the first complete revision of the text since 1977.Initiated by the movement genius Rudolf Laban, and refined through fifty years of work by teachers here and abroad, Labanotation, the first wholly successful system for recording human movement, is now having the effect on ballet and other forms of dance that the prefection of music notation in the Renaissance had on the development of music.This book makes it possible to record accurately, for study and re