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Labanotation scores commissioned by the American Dance Legacy Institute Mary COREY Since 1996, the American Dance Legacy Institute (ADLI) has included the Labanotation of short works as part of its Repertory Etude Project and New Dance Group Project. The purpose of this presentation is to inform ICKL of the existence of the scores. The mission of ADLI's Repertory Etude Project is to provide non-restricted danced access to the work of great choreographers. Toward this end, ADLI has commissioned major figures in dance to create short dances, called etudes, which have a basis in the choreographer’s previous work. Other than the initial payment of a fee for purchase, the etudes carry no restrictions and may be performed by solo men or women or, in some cases, a group. Coaches and consultants are available but not required, and there is no requirement that the choreographer must approve the dance before it may be performed. At this writing, five etudes have been created: one each by Donald McKayle, David Parsons, Daniel Nagrin, and Danny Grossman, as well as an etude arranged by Lorry May based on Anna Sokolow's Rooms. The purchase fee provides a packet of videotapes, music scores, Labanotation scores and other information with which to learn the dance. The New Dance Group project of the ADLI has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and is intended to preserve and document select works of the New Dance Group. As part of that project, the following works have been notated to date: Tenant of the Street by Eve Gentry, Man of Action by Daniel Nagrin, and Lady Macbeth by Mary Anthony. Mary Corey has been the notator for the American Dance Legacy Institute since its first Etude project, Rainbow Etude by Donald McKayle. |
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Mary COREY, Professor of Dance at the University of California, Irvine; former staff notator and reconstructor for the Dance Notation Bureau. Notation scores include works by Duncan, Balanchine, Limón, McKayle, Trisler, Parsons, and others; notator for Daniel Lewis' book, The Illustrated Dance Technique of José Limón. Reconstructed works by St. Denis, Nijinsky, Humphrey, Tamiris, Bettis, Weidman, and Loring for dance companies and universities. Notator for the American Dance Legacy Institute since 1996. |
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