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Development of multimedia teaching material for Labanotation in Japan Minako NAKAMURA, Kozaburo HACHIMURA Labanotation is now widely used as dance notation. If we use hypermedia in teaching dance with Labanotation, we can expect good results in choreography and dance education. In this paper, we report on an experiment by using SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) for an effective method of choreography and dance education, integrate with LabanEditor, VRML and video. First I tell about the function of LabanEditor and its VRML output, and then I give an explanation how to use SMIL and analyze the significance and limitations of this hypermedia approach, and pose a problem to be solved. Labanotation is not well known to Japanese dance educators; only a few can teach it. It is significant to develop multimedia teaching material for Labanotation in Japan. If the motion capturing data can be converted into those of the LabanEditor, that will make the automatic notation of physical movement possible and it will also become the efficient way to teach Labanotation. In the existing conditions, however, the SMIL approach can't be put to practical use immediately, but this could be placed as the fundamental study in the domain of the dance study, in which we are sure to make positive use of the motion capture system. We also examine cultural problem about Labanotation in Japan briefly. In the near future we will be able to use them in dance classes and check them up. |
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Minako NAKAMURA - Retsumeikan University, Art Research Center - Researcher. She received her BS (Ethnomusicology) from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1991, MS (Dance Education) from Ochanomizu University in 1995. She finished the doctoral course of Ochanomizu University in 1997 and she is a Ph.D candidate. She was an associate researcher at Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa during 1997-2000. |
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Kozaburo HACHIMURA : A professor at Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Born in 1948. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1971, 1973 and 1979, respectively. His current interests include image databases, graphics system for human body movement and KANSEI image processing. He concurrently holds the post of the Vice Director at both Integrated Information Center and Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University. |
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