My curiosity in dance notation was sparked in my teens as a result of taking modern and contemporary classes after a decade spent in the ballet studio. As a ballerina, I was used to a confined, familiar vocabulary. Although we used references to ballet terms in contemporary classes - plié, jeté, attitude - some motions could not be properly described by using those terms. My modern and contemporary instructors often used phrases that expressed movement and transitions, but also left greater room for interpretation — ‘white out’ or ‘tugging a rope.’
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Presented here are three artists at different stages in their careers - Eva Dean, a veteran choreographer; Sarah Friedland, a young filmmaker/choreographer; and Madeline Hollander, an explorer of human and non-human gestures....
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