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Integrating Dance Notation in the Dance Curriculum Tina CURRAN This session will feature a work from the American Dance Legacy Institute Etude collection as a thematic core for participants to experience how dance notation can actively engage students in movement analysis and dance-making to cultivate dance literacy. The session will lead participants through a framework of instruction that demonstrates how dance notation can be integrated into the etude project. The American Dance Legacy Institute Etude collection is established to provide ongoing access to works of the masters for purposes of reflection, study, and performance. Each etude is a jewel-like distillation of kinesthetic and emotional information based on a signature work by an American dance master. These etudes provide high-quality and meaningful content to weave in motif notation as a tool for observation, for dance-making and to provide stepping stones that lead students to reading and dancing the structured notation. Participants will be introduced to a specific etude to experience a progression within this teaching framework including: observation of the work, identification and discussion of key choreographic elements, communication of distilled ideas into motif notation, use of a notated motif phrase to create a movement phrase inspired by the etude, and finally, links to the Labanotation score leading to reconstruction of the full work. The planned etude for this presentation is a new project under the direction of Carolyn Adams to add Jose Limon's work to the American Dance Legacy volumes. Carla Maxwell will create this etude from key Limon works and Mary Corey will create the Labanotation score. The anticipated completion of this work is Spring of 2001. |
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Tina CURRAN, Tina Curran - Co-founder of the Language of Dance® Center, USA; BFA - The Juilliard School; MFA - Southern Methodist University; Language of Dance® Certification Specialist. Currently developing syllabus and course materials utilizing motif in general education and professional dance settings. Conducts workshops and teaches nationally and internationally. Has reconstructed works by Nijinsky, Tamiris, Bettis, Gripenberg, Saint-Léon, and Tudor for dance companies and universities. Co-director of the Symbols of Our Community….Moving Forward with Motif symposium directly following the 2001 ICKL conference. |
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