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Labanotation: Integral to Dance Making in Creative Dance Billie LEPCZYK Creative Dance is a University Core Curriculum course at Virginia Tech. Therefore, the enrollment reflects the diverse curricula across campus and all undergraduate academic levels. Since Spring Semester 2000, there have been 15 to 19 different kinds of majors represented in each class and the percentage of males has varied from 17% to 55%. Each class is different in terms of prior dance experience. In one class, there were only five students with prior dance training. In another, 50% had extensive dance training. For each creative dance class offered, over a hundred students preregister but do not get the class because it is limited to 38 students. To integrate this large diverse group of students, I have developed the assignments to serve as mixers. Therefore, students work in small groups with different classmates on each assignment. Each assignment focuses on specific movement elements and culminates in a dance. Labanotation is used as a tool to understand and plan the structure of their dances. The notation reinforces the learning process and is the tangible part of the ephemeral dance composition. The presentation will focus on one assignment and demonstrate how notation is integrated into the creative process of dance making. |
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Billie LEPCZYK, an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, holds a doctorate from Columbia University where she was a Teachers College Fellow and Dance Notation Bureau Certifications as a Professional Notator, Laban Movement Analyst, and Labanotation Teacher. She is a Fellow of ICKL and the AAHPERD Research Consortium and the recipient of the 1998 National Dance Association Scholar/Artist Award. Her research interests are movement analysis, curriculum design, and choreography. |
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