Matt Gough Blog [closed]: Adapt / Redesign

Tuesday, Apr 20 2004, 02:55

When Sandra Aberkalns notated Artifact II by William Forsythe she used colour to define:

• structured improvisations [tasks]
• choreography [consistent directives]
• choreographic directives open to dancer choice

and referenced a multimedia cd-rom via an adaptation of the laban notation score [read more here]. xdsn notation can handle these functions natively and remain clear to interpret.

the article gives a good indication of laban notation in use, and is worth considering when deciding on how to document your work.

i shall present a sample visual and machine readable score in xdsn shortly and provide documentation of how to use the system

• Immeasurable
• the joy of sets
• motionbound notes
• motionbound one
• Immeasurable
• komusō
• PGR day thoughts
• DDV part one
• tick tock
• Somei Yoshino