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Ohio-Minneapolis
Dancer Exchange

Preparation
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Labanotation -- a system of transcribing human movement -- was developed by Rudolf Laban's distinguished early pupil, Albrecht Knust.

Motif Description is a symbol system* that notates the outline of movement. Motif De-scription, developed by V. Preston-Dunlop, is based on Labanotation. Symbols are written in columns and read from the bottom upwards, left to right.

Following is the assignment (May 25, 2000):

• Read the Biography of Rudolf Laban

• Look at the Library of Laban Motif Symbols -- and try to do some of the symbols from your chair as you look at them on the Web

• Look at the three Laban Motif movement phrases:

• Laban Motif Phrase A
• Laban Motif Phrase B
• Laban Motif Phrase C

Use the library to translate the phrases into movement words, but don't print them! Symbols are not as important as the concepts that inform them!!!

Make two different movement phrases for each motif phrase.
 

A phrase** written in Laban Motif can look very different from one person to another. This dancer exchange will give you practice in reading and communicating movement phrases represented by the symbols.

LABAN MOTIF PHRASE A**

This assignment will prepare you for the interactive dance class between Ballet Arts Minnesota dancers in Minneapolis and Ohio University School of Dance dancers in Athens, Ohio.

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