Choreology

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Choreology is a method of dance notation ( engl. Benesh Movement Notation ), wherein the dance movement in a system of score lines are recorded.

This dance notation was developed by the Czech painter and musician Rudolf Benesh and his wife Joan Benesh in England in the late 1940s and patented in 1955. Since the term “choreography” (also) referred to the “graphic representation of dance movements and postures”, Benesh chose “choreology” instead for his patent.

The notation is based on the system of staves and bar lines known from music . The lines correspond from top to bottom to the head, shoulders, hips, knees and feet of the dancer, in which the dimensions and quality of the dance movements are drawn using abstract symbols. The notation system has the advantage that it can be combined with a musical score to clarify the synchronization of music and dance.

The choreology is maintained by the Benesh Institute, which merged with the Royal Academy of Dance in 1997 .

With choreology, ballets could be written down for the first time. It is one of the most common methods of dance notation and is used today in physiotherapy , choreography and as a teaching aid at the Royal Academy of Dance.

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[Choreology is] the aesthetic and scientific study of all forms of human movement by movement notation. - Rudolf Benesh, definition of the choreology when patenting 1955.
German: "[Choreology is] the aesthetic and scientific study of all forms of human movements through movement notation."

See also

literature

  • R. Benesh, J. Benesh: Reading Dance: The Birth of Choreology . 1983, McGraw-Hill Book Company Ltd, ISBN 0285622919
  • RJ Neagle, KC Ng: Machine-Representation and Visualization of a Dance Notation . in Proceedings of Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts - London July 2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Von DUDEN: The large foreign dictionary . Mannheim 1994, p. 263, referred to as "obsolete".