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The 29 pages that link to Dance notation, each with the reason it gives.

• ChoreographyRelated: Notation can preserve choreographic sequences beyond memory and live performance.

• Modern danceRelated: Modern dance pioneers developed and used notation to preserve choreography and movement ideas.

• Martha GrahamRelated: Preserving Graham’s choreography depends on notation, rehearsal records, and embodied transmission.

• DanceRelated: Notation can preserve choreography beyond demonstrations and memory.

• Dance educationRelated: Notation offers tools for studying and preserving movement beyond memory.

• Vaslav NijinskyRelated: Rudolf Laban’s notation helped preserve Nijinsky’s choreography after its original performances.

• Contemporary danceRelated: Notation offers ways to preserve choreography that might otherwise exist only in bodies and memory.

• Merce CunninghamRelated: Notation preserved choreography whose sequences could be generated through chance.

• Lincoln KirsteinRelated: Kirstein supported efforts to preserve choreography beyond the lifespan of a performance.

• Postmodern danceRelated: Scores and instructions made choreographic ideas portable beyond a single performed sequence.

• Dance improvisationRelated: Notation can preserve movement sequences that improvisation leaves open.

• Doris HumphreyRelated: Notation and reconstruction help preserve Humphrey’s choreography beyond its original performers.

• Jazz danceRelated: Notation and teaching methods helped preserve and transmit theatrical jazz choreography.

• Folk danceRelated: Notation helps preserve choreography, though many folk traditions rely chiefly on embodied teaching.

• Judson Dance TheaterRelated: Scores and instructions made ideas, rather than fixed choreography, central to some works.

• Line danceRelated: Notation can preserve a line dance’s steps and sequence beyond oral teaching.

• Agnes de MilleRelated: Preserving choreography matters because de Mille’s dramatic effects depended on precise movement and staging.

• Bollywood danceRelated: Choreographers use counts and movement cues to coordinate complex filmed sequences.

• Fan danceRelated: Notation can preserve fan gestures, patterns, and timing for teaching or performance.

• Hanya HolmRelated: Holm contributed to the development of Labanotation, a notation system used to record movement.

• Loie FullerRelated: Fuller sought ways to protect and transmit her choreography, raising problems of recording movement.

• Street danceRelated: Street dance's reliance on embodied transmission contrasts with the possibility of documenting movement in notation.

• Expressionist danceRelated: Laban's notation emerged alongside the movement's efforts to analyze and transmit choreography.

• Marie SalléRelated: Notation helps historians reconstruct the theatrical dance conventions Sallé worked within.

• Dance crazeRelated: Notation offers a way to preserve steps that might otherwise vanish with a fad.

• Sophie Taeuber-ArpRelated: Her dance practice made bodily movement another medium for exploring rhythm and form.

• History of danceRelated: Notation makes some choreographies historically recoverable while highlighting how much earlier practice went unrecorded.

• Victor SilvesterRelated: Written dance instruction helped transmit the standardized steps associated with competitive ballroom.