Jacqueline Challet-Haas's paper "Principal 'KIN' Usages and Rules Differing from 'LAB' Usages and Rules" is now available online. This article was originally written for the 21st ICKL Conference in 1999. The whole article has been revised with some updates, new layouts and graphics in 2020. Now it is available in English and French at Centre National dÉcriture du Mouvement en Cinétographie Laban website.
Note on the April 2020 publication:
This Technical Paper, revised by Jacqueline Challet-Haas, Raphaël Cottin and Noëlle Simonet, has been copied as close as possible to the original, while harmonizing the typography. The kinetograms have been revised as well as certain reformulations which seemed to us to contribute to greater clarity. The original paper can be consulted on request in the CNEM archives, deposited at the library of the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, France.
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Thanks for these additions. As a European I find it confusing to work with LAB and KIN. It remains a pity for me that there is not one universal system, but two that differ from each other.
ReplyDeleteDear Wanda, There are British English and American English. Slangs are developed in different parts of English speaking areas. It does not stop people to speak English. They are able to communicate with one another. I think allowing system to grow slightly differently is a beauty and freedom. There are not huge differences in between KIN and LAB. ICKL was established in 1959 to safeguard the system's development.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your response, but I still do not agree. A language is not comparable with a system of notation.
ReplyDelete...language not comparable with a system of notation?
ReplyDeleteI believe this requires some thought.
I conducted a dance/movement workshop in which verbal communication was at a minimum by using some simple/basic ASL terms. We even addressed ourselves by names using movement only. The whole session can be translated into Labanotation, which makes me think of notation as at least a type of language.
Lab/Kin is abstract, and non-verbal symbols free it from language constraints, thus making it universally
ReplyDeletecomprehensible and effective for international exchange and research.