Editing Dance notation (section)

== History ==

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Dancewriting 001.jpg|[[Valerie Sutton]] in a dance pose...
Dancewriting.jpg|...and its corresponding "Sutton DanceWriting" notation
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In the 1680s, [[Pierre Beauchamp]] invented a dance notation system for Baroque dance. His system, known as [[Beauchamp–Feuillet notation]], was published in 1700 by [[Raoul Auger Feuillet]] and used to record dances throughout the eighteenth century.

A well-known collection of dance scores is the [[Sergeyev Collection]], recorded using [[Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov]]'s notation method (1892). This collection documents the [[Mariinsky Ballet|Imperial Ballet]]'s (today the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet) repertoire from the turn of the 20th century, including [[Marius Petipa]]'s original choreographic designs for ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Giselle]]'', ''[[Le Corsaire]]'', and ''[[Swan Lake]]'', as well as ''[[Coppélia]]'' and the original version of ''[[The Nutcracker]]''. It was with this collection that many of these works were first staged outside Russia.

In 1934, the composer [[Joseph Schillinger]] created a highly accurate notation system based on the 3D bone rotation and translation of a moving dancer.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=A Modern Instantiation of Schillinger's Dance Notation | journal=Contemporary Music Review | date=April 2011 | volume=30 | issue=2 | pages=179–186 | doi=10.1080/07494467.2011.636204 | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07494467.2011.636204 | access-date=5 August 2019| last1=Schedel | first1=Margaret | last2=Fox-Gieg | first2=Nick | last3=Yager | first3=Kevin G. | s2cid=62206676 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> With [[motion capture]] technology half a century in the future, there was no way to effectively measure and record this information at the time.

In 1948, [[Hanya Holm]] became the first Broadway choreographer to have her dance scores copyrighted, for her work on ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]''.

In 1951, Stanley D. Kahn published [[Kahnotation]], a dance notation system specific to [[tap dance]].

In 1956, Rudolf and Joan Benesh first published [[Benesh Movement Notation]], a written system for recording human movement. It is most widely used in the recording and restaging of dance works.<ref>{{cite web |title=Benesh International: Benesh Movement Notation |url=https://www.royalacademyofdance.org/benesh-international-benesh-movement-notation/ |website=Royal Academy of Dance |access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref>

In 1958, Eshkol and Wachman published an exposition of [[Eshkol-Wachman movement notation|their movement notation]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eshkol |first=Noa |title=Movement notation |last2=Wachman |first2=Avraham |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=1958}}</ref>

In 1969, Romanian choreographer Theodor Vasilescu published a dance notation system for Romanian [[folk dance]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/dance-notation/Twentieth-century-developments| title=Twentieth-century developments |access-date=6 March 2021}}</ref>

In the 1970s, [[North Korea]]n choreographer U Chang-sop developed a system of dance notation for [[Korean dance]] called the Chamo System of Dance Notation, which uses pictorially based symbols.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Dance notation |last=Guest |first=Ann Hutchinson |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. |date=2 October 2016 |access-date=14 May 2019 |url= https://www.britannica.com/art/dance-notation }}</ref>

In 1975, [[Ann Hutchinson Guest]] reconstructed choreographer [[Arthur Saint-Léon]]'s ''Pas de Six'' from his 1844 ballet ''[[La Vivandière or Markitenka|La Vivandière]]'', along with its original music by composer [[Cesare Pugni]], for the [[Joffrey Ballet]]. The piece was reconstructed from Saint-Léon's work, which was documented using his own method of dance notation, known as ''[[La Sténochorégraphie]]''.

In 1982, the first computerized notation system—the ''DOM'' (Dance on Microprocessor) dance notation system—was created by [[Eddie Dombrower]] for [[Apple II]] computers.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Forrest |first=Juliet |year=1986 |title=Field Report: A Choreographer's Assessment of the DOM Notation System |journal=Dance Notation Journal |issue=Fall |pages=47–48}}</ref> The system displayed an animated figure on the screen that performed dance moves specified by the choreographer.

In 2017, Felipe Hsieh created [[Tango Notation]], a dance notation system specific to Argentine tango.