Can choreographers “write” down dance routines the way composers write music?
Yes. There are two dance notation systems. Labanotation, the more famous, was invented in 1928 by Rudolph Von Laban and uses abstract symbols based on the rectangle, inscribed on a vertical staff read from bottom to top. The symbols represent how and where the body moves and how long it should take to get where it’s going. Choreology, devised in 1956 by Rudolf and Joan Benesh, is just slightly more representational. The lines on its five- line staff read from left to right and correspond to the height of the human body, head to toe. Lines and dots are placed on the staff to show which part is to be moved, when, and in what way. Folks, I’ve made a good faith effort in the privacy of my own home to follow some of these diagrams. All I could produce was a death spiral. Source: HOW DO THEY DO THAT? By Caroline Sutton Who came up with the idea of “Seeing Eye dogs” for blind people? (answer below) During World War I a doctor at a German hospital was called away from the blind patient he was
