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Written by Rudolf Benesh, founder of Choreology, and assisted by his wife, Joan, a former dancer with the Royal Ballet. It is a comprehensive account of the system of movement notation invented by the Beneshs and which is used all over the world by ballet and dance companies (most notably the Royal Ballet itself).
For centuries choreographers had to rely on their memory to recreate the great ballets of the past and to teach by demonstrating the steps. The creation of an accurate and easily leant notation, as applicable to folk and modern dance as to ballet, will be a major bonus to the development of dance composition. The notations as based on five signs, set out, like music, on a five line stave and which are illustrated by Rudolf Benesh's original figure drawings. Containing extracts from the notation of folk and oriental dances, as well as ballet. This book will inspire dancers all over the world, as well as being applicable in other fields of movement, from physiotherapy to neurology.
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Rudolf Benesh studied music at Morley College and founded the Institute of Choreology in 1963.
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Reading dance: The birth of choreology (A Condor book)
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London: A Condor Book / Souvenir Press Educational & Academic ) Ltd, 1977
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket (Illustrated £4.50). Rubber stamp (2.75 inch by 3/4 inch) of 'Benjamin's Modern Jazz - Dance Center Schippersstraat 5 -7- 9 Amsterdam - . Tel. inl. 020 -99 38 20' in upper fore-edge corner of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has a 1.25 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel; and trivial wear to top edge. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to top edge of block near spine. Seller Inventory # 107510