Submitted by DNB Staff - May 12, 2014
The following contains a lists of topics for DNB theory meetings and related discussions from 1999 to present.
Topics: flexion, bending/folding - unspecified amount
Topics: middle level shifts; "an action" vs. "any action."
Topic: bending
– use of the term.
Topics:
mapping Core Working Group meetings; how is Motif Notation being used – directions; motion/destination; place middle; action/appropriate action;
stillness/pausing; criteria for developing notation; flexion/extension;
standardization of notation; duration of fixed length symbols; turns/rotation;
traveling/paths; weight transference; gestural traveling and paths; body
portion involvement (whole body/body part).
Topics: the
meaning of a vertical straight line; flexion/extension; stillness; criteria for
developing Motif Notation; successive and simultaneous; increase/decrease;
center (place middle); direction; dimensions and planes; weight transference;
stepping; springs (aerial movement).
Topics: theory
meeting procedures; turns and paths; ballroom dance.
Topics: altitudes;
notating African dance; turns and paths in ballroom dance; top of the head.
Topics: stepping
signs in Motif Notation; notating African dance.
Topics: floor
work staff; bar lines; repeat signs Graham contractions; Addendum - African dance.
Topics: XML;
amount and size of paths.
Topics: inclusion
bows; facing for thumb side of hand; generic cartwheel sign; touching leg
gestures.
Topics: African
dance; generic accent sign; generic dynamic signs; phrasing indications;
Kinesphere indications; time value of flexion/extension.
Topics:
African dance; palm facing; accent, emphasis; stillness; notation rules.
Topics: palm
and thumb facing; The term “Front Sign”; counting issues; Graham hand and torso
contractions; entrances and exits; direction signs – progression of specificity.
Topics: “Dance
Forms” software; distance.
Topics: near
and far; African dance.
Topics: gestures in circular paths. African dance.
Topics:
gestures in circular paths; writing the intent of movement; diagonal paths;
African dance; initiation sign.
Topic: timing
of touching gestures.
Topics: timing
for supports; remaining over the center of weight; timing of touching gestures;
passing and transient touch; lollipop direction symbols.
Topics: teaching
Labanotation; touching gestures; unit timing and specific timing; transient
touch.
Topics: unit
timing, revolving on a straight path.
Topics: revolving
on a straight path (swiveling and non-swiveling); unit timing and exact timing;
zed carets; focal point; notating various dance styles/genre.
Topic: photos
of meeting participants.
Topics: ICKL
Motif Fellows; unit timing; modification of the “phrasing bow”; indication of
the “same” and “different”; diagonal pathways; “any circular path”; indication
of distance; duration of flexion; stillness in a starting position; hold
sign with gestures; tempo.
Topics:
transient touch; “spring points” (timing of support-touch).
Topics: unit
timing; unfolding sign vs. the back to normal sign; distance indications;
flexion and extension.
Topics: timing
of support bows.
Topics: relationship
bows; length of modifying bows; body hold sign; distance indications; turning
on a straight path.
Topics: timing
of relationships; timing of vertical bows; body holds and space holds;
“measurement signs” and “space signs”; misuse and inconsistency in LN
terminology; leg gesture distance from floor vs. the legs distance from each
other; swiveling vs. non-swiveling supports; Zack Brown's ICKL proposal.
Topics: ICKL
Motif fellows; “any prime action” vs. “any movement”; tempo signs; revised
Agbadza score; movement paradigms and categories; Effort without an action
indication; vertical line (terms and meaning).
Topics: ICKL
Motif fellows proposal; palm facing; the reading of pre-signs; phrasing;
inclusion bows; generic cartwheel sign; touching leg
gesture; accent, emphasis; phrasing; generic Dynamic sign; kinesphere sign; stillness; distance; transient
touch; flexion, extension.
Topics: The
role of stagers, reconstructors, and notators; holding and canceling Supports;
“weight shift,” “weight transference,” and “steps”; the significance of terms;
tilting and shifting.
Topics: P.W.
Pluto’s Paper concerning the timing of supports in tango movement; ownership of
scores.
Topic: steps.
Topics:
Dynamics; Effort.
Topics: tick
marks and bar lines; timing and interpretation of steps.
Topics: distance
of a step; placement of a the feet; unit and specific timing; touching gestures.
Topics: rhythm;
unit and specific timing; flexibility vs. rules in Labanotation; altitude and
measurement indication.
Topic: Central, Peripheral, and Transverse (tension, pathways, body portions,
initiation).
Topics: differences
between Motif Notation and Labanotation; African dance.
Topics: thematic
notation; KineScribe; Zack Brown's Labanotation text; direction for
gestures vs. supports; secret turns.
Topics: flexion
indications in an increasing sign; design drawing on a high surface; phrasing
of direction signs.
Minutes for the DNB Theory Meeting, October 13, 2015
Topics: What
process do people use to write notation? How should Labanotation reading and
writing be taught?; The derivation of relationship bows; Swinging; Initiation
bows.
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