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SESSIONS The Labanotation score of Trio A by Yvonne Rainer by Melanie Clarke and Joukje Kolff , UK Workshop: reading session and presentation Description of the workshop/presentation We would like to present our findings in a workshop session. We will hand out an excerpt of the work and assist people in their reading of the work. Afterwards we will present our paper, possibly incorporating some of the issues encountered during the hands-on reading session. Abstract of the paper This paper is about notating Trio A by Yvonne Rainer (1966) in Labanotation and the use of video footage of the workshop on DVD. Melanie Clarke and Joukje Kolff notated the dance during a week-long workshop in London in the summer of 2003 in which Rainer taught Trio A to students. This article shows that the dance requires detailed indications in many respects, while leaving other aspects open to individual performance. Among the more important aspects of the dance is the facing of the body, the direction of the gaze and the matter-of-fact performance style. Not important, for example, is the exact duration of certain phrases and the amount of distance travelled in space. The article mentions the choices we have made in order for the score to reflect these points and therefore to reflect the dance and its intention in the best way possible. The article also mentions the use of a DVD created from selected video footage of the workshop and suggests fruitful use of the medium in future projects: using easy access to various parts of the dance, indicating the corresponding page numbers of the score on the DVD. Melanie Clarke has a BA Hons Dance Theatre and a MA Dance Studies from Laban. She has also undertaken the specialist diploma in Dance notating at Laban studying with Jean Jarrell and Ann Hutchinson-Guest. Melanie has been a member of the teaching faculty at Laban since 1996, teaching Release-based Contemporary Technique and Labanotation and is now First year coordinator of the BA Programme at the centre. Melanie also choreographs for her own company 'blue white' and has presented seven original works in Britain and abroad. Joukje Kolff received a MSc in Computational Linguistics (University of Amsterdam) and a MFA in Dance (Ohio State University). She has been research assistant to Dr. Ann Hutchinson Guest at the Language of Dance Centre, co-writing the Advanced Labanotation Textbook Issues, and has taught Labanotation at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Joukje has also worked as multimedia programmer and teacher. Besides several projects involving Labanotation and web sites, she is currently a full-time mother of two.
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