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>DANCE NOTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

This bibliography is a work in process. Please feel free to send additions to the DNB Librarian at library@dancenotation.org 

Aberkalns, Sandra. "The Art of Translating and Interpreting Choreographic Works." The Art of Movement: Looking at Dance Performance Inside and Out, Proceedings of 31st Annual Congress on Research in Dance Conference, 1998: 1-9.

_____. "Dancing to the Future." Dance Teacher, March 2001: 42-45.

_____. "A Different Career Option." Dance Magazine, Feb. 1996: 70-73.

Acocella, Joan Ross. "Notes on Notation." Dance Magazine, Nov., 1986: 70-73.

Arbeau, T. Orchesographie. Langres, 1588.

_____. Orchesography. Julia Sutton, ed. Mineola, NY: Dover publications, 1967.

Anderson, Jack. "How 'Fat Kate's Wedding,' From 1688, Lives On." New York Times, Aug. 4, 1991: H18.

_____. "Notation Provides the Key to Many Balletic treasures." New York Times, Apr. 7, 1985: H10, 16.

_____. "Will Choreography Ever Be Respected as an Art Form?" New York Times, Sept. 5, 1982: H6.

Babitz, S. "Write Your Dances." American Dancer, New York, Nov. 1939, Feb. 1940, Sept. 1940.

Barnes, Clive. "Dance in 2-D." Dance Magazine, May 1997: 122.

Bartenieff, Irmgard, Peggy Hackney, Betty True Jones, Judy Van Zile, and Carl Wolz. "The Potential of Movement Analysis as a Research Tool: A Preliminary Analysis," Dance Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 3-26.

Benesh, Rudolf and Joan. An Introduction to Benesh Movement-Notation. Revised and extended edition. Brooklyn: Dance Horizons, 1969.

_____."Birth of a Language." Theoria to Theory, vol. II, London, 1978.

Blum, Odette. "Dance: The Value of Recording Dance." The Study of Dance and the Place of Dance in Society. New York: E.& S.N.S.P.O.N., 1986: 37-43.

_____. "The Value of Recording Dance, in Dance. The Study of Dance and the Place of Dance in Society." Proceedings of the VIII Commonwealth and International Conference on Sport, Physical Education, Dance, Recreation and Health. London: E.&E.F. Spon, 1986: 37-43.

Causley, M. An Introduction to Benesh Movement Notation. London: Max Parrish, 1968.

Chan, Louisa. "The Importance of Notation to the Development of Dance." Singapore Festival of Dance 82 (festival program). Singapore: National Trust Theatre, 1982: 24-28.

Chilkovsky, N. Introduction to Dance Literacy. Transvaal, S. Africa: International Library for African Music, 1978.

Dell, Cecily. A Primer for Movement Description Using Effort-Shape and Supplementary Concepts. New York: Dance Notation Bureau, 1970.

Derra de Moroda, R. "Dance Notation of the 18th Centry: Lorin-Beauchamp-Feuillet." International Federation for Theatre Research Congress, Copenhagen, September 1971.

Durr, Dixie. "Labanotation: Language or Script?" Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1981): 132-138.

Eshkol, Noa and Abraham Wachmann. Movement Notation. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1958.

Grauert, R. "Choroscript" (Nikolais System). Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Washington D.C., May-June, 1959.

Guest, Ann Hutchinson. Dance Notation: the Process of Recording Movement on Paper. New York: Dance Horizons, 1984.

_____. Choreo-Graphics: a Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1989.

_____. Labanotation: or Kinetography Laban. The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement. Third edition. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1977.

Herbison-Evens, Don. "Dance, Video, Notation, and Computers." Leonardo, vol 21, no. 1 (1988): 45-50.

Hodes, Stuart, "Dance Preservation and the Oral History Paradigm." Dance Reconstructed (conference proceedings). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1992: 97-108.

Laban, J. de. "Introduction to Dance Notation." Dance Index, New York, April-May, 1946.

Laban, Rudolf. Principles of Dance and Movement Notation. London: Macdonald & Evens, 1956, 1975.

Louppe, Laurence, ed. Traces of Dance: Drawings and Notations of Choreographers. Trans. Brian Holmes and Peter Theories. Paris: Editions dis Voir, 1994.

Michel, A. "The Oldest Dance Notation." Dance Observer, New York, November 1937.

Nikolais, Alwin. "A New Method of Dance Notation." Theatre Arts Magazine, New York, Feb. 1948.

Preston-Dunlop, Valerie, ed. "Resumé of a Symposium on Dance Literacy." Dancing and Dance Theories. London: London: Laban Center for Movement and Dance, 1979: 53-59.

Reynold, William C. "Film Versus Notation for Dance: Basic Perceptual and Epistemological Differences." The 5th Hong Kong International Dance Conference. The Second International Congress on Movement Notation, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 1990: 151-164.

Saunders, R.D. Danscore—The Easy Way to Write Dance. Hollywood: Saunders, 1946.

Sutton, Valerie. Sutton Movement Shorthand Book I. Irvine, CA: The Movement Shorthand Society, 1973.

Topaz, Muriel, ed. "The Notation Issue." (Choreography and Dance, vol. 1, no. 1, 1988).

Van Zile, Judy. "What is Dance? Implications for Dance Notation." Dance Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (Fall/Spring 1985/1986): 125-133.

Williams, Drid. "The Credibility of Movement-Writing." Journal for Anthropological Study of Human Movement, vol. 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 73-89.

_____. Laban Script. A beginning Text on Movement Writing for Non-Dancers. Australia: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1990.

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