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This looks at one special kind of moving - dancing - and discusses both why and how symbolic lanaguage,that is notation, are used both to record and recreate dance.
This looks at one special kind of moving - dancing - and discusses both why and how symbolic lanaguage,that is notation, are used both to record and recreate dance.
| Module code and title: | MU120, Open mathematics |
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| Item code: | MU120; 08 |
| Published: | 1996 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:01 |
| Note: | Loan copy available on compilation video MU120/5,6,7,8 |
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| Producer: | Pip Surgey |
| Contributors: | Simon Bullock; Ann Hutchinson; Warren Lamb |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Dance; Geometry; Labanotation; Movement analysis; Notation; Symbolic language |
| Subject terms: | Dance notation; Labanotation |
| Footage description: | Footage - Hockey being played. Swimmers in Swimming pool. Couple dancing. OAP's doing aerobics. Dancers from the Kokuma company (0'20"-1'33") - Warren Lamb speaking. B/W still of Rudolf Laban. B/w still of factory workers. Laban notation of Tile workers. Warren Lamb(1'34"-3'09") - B/w still Rudolf Lamb + icosahedron models. B/w still of male dancer inside ocosahedron frame panning out to dancers outside frame. Warren Lamb. Dancers from Kokuma company(3'10"-4'50") - Music "Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune" playing in background. B/W stills from "Afternoon of a faun":Faun:Nymphs:Faun & Nymph:Faun & Nymph:Faun & Nymphs: Rudolf Nureyev interviewed. Nijinsky's notation B/w stills from "Afternoon of a Faun":Faun & Nymph:Nymphs:Faun & Nymph:Faun:Faun:Faun (4'51"-6'54") - Music "The Gavot" by Kellom Tomlinson playing while couple in period costume dance the Gavot. Feuillet Notation of Tomlinson's gavot. Benesh notation of gavot. Eshkol-Wachman notation of Gavot. Labanotation of Gavot. Split screen showing three notation methods (6'55"-9'45") - Music "Nocture in F" playing. Royal ballet dancers in rehearsal. B/w still Joan and Rudolf Benesh teaching notation in classroom.Pages of notation. Royal ballet dancers in rehearsal (9'46"-12'24") - Kokuma company rehearsal. Jea Johnson Jones interview (12'25"-15'26") - Dancer in studio performing sequence in Waltz time with notation at side of screen. Tina Curran speaking. Dancer in studio performing sequence in Waltz time (15'27"-17'55") - Music "Prelude a l'Apre-midi d'un Faune" playing with B/w stills from "Afternoon of a Faun":Faun:Nymphs:Faun & Nymphs. Nijinsky's notation. Ann Hutchinson Guest speaking. Notation of page of Nijinsky's ballet(17'56"-19'31") - B/w still Rudolf Laban panning down to icosahedron model. Music "Tableau II chez Petrouchka" playing. Drawings of lines and figures within (19'32"-20'15"). Female dancer with superimosed shapes. Drawings of geometric shapes. Ann Johnson Jones speaking(20'16"-21'03") - B/w still of notations and icosahedron model. B/w still of female dancer within an icosahedron frame. Drawings of geometric shapes (21'04"-21'48") - Female dancer in studio showing movement with lines showing shapes superimposed (21'49"-22'49") - Kokuma company dancers (22'50"-24'01"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU8533 |
| Production number: | FOUM525J |
| Videofinder number: | 4948 |
| Available to public: | no |
