DanceWriting Shorthand For Modern & Jazz Dance

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7CAREERS ENHANCED BY DANCE WRITING ® SHORTHAND SKILLSDANCE WRITING ® Shorthand skills can make jobs easier for dancersand all those who work in the dance field. Developing good Shorthandskills can be a great advantage if you are working in the areas of:1.Professional Performing2.Choreography3.Dance Research4.Dance Instruction5.Dance Therapy6.Dance Management7.Dance JournalismPerforming dancers can learn roles quickly by jotting the steps down with the Shorthand betweenrehearsals. Choreographers can jot down new choreographic ideas before they are forgotten. Danceresearchers can use DANCE WRITING ® Shorthand to record historic dances and one of the mostobvious applications for the Shorthand is to aid teachers of dance. Teachers are always creatingnew choreography for their classes, and what better way to remember new barre routines or solosthan to jot them down quickly before class. In the same way the Shorthand benefits dance therapists,directors of dance companies, and dance critics.New careers are also developing in the field of dance notation. As DANCE WRITING ® becomesmore known, more jobs for DANCE WRITING ® stenographers will open. A career in dance notation for a company is similar to a specialized secretary in English. The dance stenographer attendsrehearsals and performances of the company which he/she works for and records the repertoirewith DANCE WRITING ® Shorthand. The stenographer then transcribes all the notes into thedetailed DANCE WRITING ® for others to read. When the company is ready, the manuscripts canbe published as Sheet Dance and the company builds a library of notated works. The DANCEWRITING ® stenographer becomes a “published” notator and has contributed to the preservation ofdance for generations to come.
9DANCE WRITING ® SHORTHAND FOR MODERN & JAZZ DANCELESSON THREEThe Five Elements Used In DANCE WRITING ® Shorthand
Page 3: DanceWriting ®ShorthandFORMODERN &
Page 6: 2INTRODUCTION TO DANCE WRITING ® S
Page 9: 5DANCE WRITING ® SHORTHAND FOR MOD
Page 13 and 14: 13DANCE WRITING ® SHORTHAND FOR MO
Page 15: DANCE WRITING ® SHORTHAND FOR MODE
Page 18: 20*Note: Most straight legs in DANC
Page 27 and 28: 29The Face-Direction LineThe Face D
Page 29 and 30: DANCE WRITING ®DANCE WRITING ® Sh
Page 31 and 32: Rotation Of The Limbs33Rotation num
Page 33 and 34: 36TURNING POSITIONS OF THE BODY TO
Page 35: 38Rule 10: When more than one figur
Page 44: 48BASIC SYMBOLS FOR MOVEMENTMovemen
Page 48 and 49: 52*Note: Many of these arrows are u
Page 50: 54REPEATS, DYNAMICS, PATTERNS & CON
Page 53 and 54: 59STANDARDIZED SHORTCUTS FOR MODERN
Page 55: 62TRANSCRIBING NOTES FROM DANCE WRI

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