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SESSIONS Mapping Motif by Ilene Fox and Tina Curran, USA Report The Dance Notation Bureau, Language of Dance® Center and Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies have formed a working group to examine current motif writing usages. The group is comprised of many of the top practitioners of motif. It was formed out of recognition that differing practices have arisen in the various motif communities and places of training. In order to accurately communicate with each other, it is vital that we understand each other’s practices. The initial goal of the group is to examine current motif usages and identify differences, creating a map of motif practices. The working group has begun by examining the movement concepts and the symbology used to represent them. We are charting the various concepts and identifying cases in which we all use the same symbol for the same concept, the same symbol to represent different concepts, different symbols to represent the same concept. The symbols used and their various meanings are charted. This presentation will report on the findings of the working group to date. Ilene Fox is the Executive Director of the Dance Notation Bureau. She is a Certified Professional Notator, teacher of Labanotation and a Certified Movement Analyst. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Education from the University of Illinois. Among the choreographers whose works she has notated are George Balanchine, Robert Joffrey, Anna Sokolow, Murray Louis, Pilobolus, Hanya Holm and Ted Shawn. Additionally, she notated the Classical Chinese Dance Syllabus for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Hawkins Technique for the book The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique by Renata Celichowska. Ms. Fox has taught Labanotation in Israel, China, Japan, Thailand and England as well as various places in the United States. Tina Curran, MFA is the Director and co-founder with Dr. Ann Hutchinson Guest, of the Language of Dance® Center, USA. She teaches nationally and internationally in both academic and professional venues presenting the Language of Dance®. Through her work as a dance reconstructor, she has restaged and directed several masterworks from Labanotation score. Curran is an associate researcher and co-author, with Christian Matjias, of the George Balanchine Critical Editions, the first of the series featuring Concerto Barocco. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at New York University, where she is researching ways in which new technologies can enhance and broaden dance literacy.
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