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	Labanotation in the dance teaching methodology János FÜGEDI, Péter LÉVAI Dance teacher certificate is an academic project now in Hungary. Based on the teaching experiences of the last four decades the time has riped in the Hungarian traditional dance teacher education to formulate the teaching methodology at academic level. Since Labanotation education also have a long, more than forty years tradition in the Hungarian traditional dance teacher training and since Labanotation is a base subject in the academic level dance teacher training, the methodology can rely on Labanotation as a tool of illustrating the method of teaching. The presentation introduces the integration and mutual dependence of the two subjects, the Labanotation and the teaching methodology, and also an example of the process of teaching, the steps of how to build, how to develop a class starting with a simple movement sequence and arriving to a more difficult structure, to an etude. The focus is on how Labanotation plays an essential role in the methodology class.	< list
	János FÜGEDI is a dance notator at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences where his main activity is notating ethnic dances of Central Europe with a focus on authentic Hungarian folk dances. He is also a professor of Labanotation at the Hungarian Dance Academy. His main research area is notation theory, movement and dance analysis, notation education and computer applicaiton in the field of dance notation. He is a fellow member of ICKL since 1989, and has a position in the Reseach Panel of ICKL. He chaired the RP at the 1997 conference of ICKL in Hong Kong. > e-mail	^ top
	Péter LÉVAI (born 1960) attended the Folk Dance faculty of the Hungarian Dance Academy (HDA). He graduated in 1979, and as a professional dancer he was a member of the Hungarian State Ensemble, later that of the Kodály Chamber Dance Ensemble. In 1993 changed his career to independent solo dancer and dance instructor. He taught folk dances in more than thirty amateur and in two professional folk ensembles. He is also a leader of numerous dance groups. He is regularly invited to give dance courses and seminars in the USA (Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco,) and Canada (Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg). He graduated as a folk dance teacher at the Hungarian Dance Academy in 1996 and was offered an assistant professor position at the Folk Dance Teacher Training Faculty of the HDA in 1998. Beside teaching he is interested in field research, comparative dance analysis and education theory.