THE GRAPHIES OF GESTURE IN DANCE: SPARSE NOTES

Abstract

The need to create a writing for dance refers to the function of recording and preserving the works of the dance repertoire and to grappling the essential of a choreographic creation, without presenting the personal interpretations of each dancer, as it happens when learning a choreography Looking at someone dancing. In the history of dance, various notations existed and succumbed. But some have remained for some time and have their history relevance. Noteworthy is the writing of Beauchamp- -Feuillet, which was the writing developed for the French ballet of court. We must also highlight the writing of Stepanov that to this day somehow serves the Russian Ballet. Beneshnotation, the Sutton Movement Writing & Shorthand, and Labanotation (the term used in the United States) or Kinetography (a term used in Europe), which undoubtedly inaugurated another story in the spellings of the movement, are also noteworthy. The present work aims to present and describe the gesture notation spellings in dance. It is based on phenomenology as a methodological approach; for the production of research data will be used the technique of describing the phenomena. The description seeks the “own thing”, and although rooted, is full of meanings lived day by day, “without this being aware or verbalized.”