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Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea, Mexico July 29 (Arrival Day) - August 5 (Departure Day) 2007 |
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SESSIONS Paper An algebraic representation of Labanotation for retrieval and other operations MISI, Gábor - Hungary Widely used computer applications for Labanotation do not contain search facilities although Labanotation teachers and researchers have long been awaiting a software application with a retrieval feature. Prospective users usually describe the requirements of such software only in an intuitive manner, expecting the software to have some semantic knowledge. The requirements have to be defined in a precise and formal way: a) ‘what’ functions the software should and should not have (on the users’ side), and b) ‘how’ to perform search operations (on the developers’ side). To obtain the most effective results, it can also be helpful for the user to understand what is happening “behind the scenes” during a search. The paper will define equalities for Laban kinetograms on graphic, syntactic and semantic levels, and similar pattern matchings on Labanotation to clarify various concepts for searches. Additionally, it will suggest using other operations on kinetograms. The paper will show an algebraic representation of Labanotation that is suitable for operations on a level that is higher than the graphic level and closest to the syntactic level. (Handling the semantic level will be reachable by applying certain notation conventions or performing complex queries on the simple representation.) Some advantages and disadvantages of this data representation will be discussed. The paper will suggest solutions for some of these problems. The concepts defined in the paper have been tried in practice. A software application named ‘Labanatory’, which works with the above concepts, was used successfully in the analysis of three traditional Hungarian male dance scores. Gábor Misi is a computer programmer MSc. He was a performer in an amateur traditional dance group in Hungary for 15 years and led field works filming dance in 20 Transylvanian villages. He participated in a number of projects at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and taught Labanotation for 5 years at the Hungarian Dance Academy. He is a member of the ICKL and the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music, Study Group on Ethnochoreology). He is a founding member of the Hungarian Society of Ethnochoreology. His research areas include analytical methods for Central European traditional dances and computer-aided dance analysis.
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