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Subject Source: Lcnaf

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 Collection
Found in: Music Division

Dance Notation Collection

Identifier: ML31.D35
Abstract The Dance Notation Collection consists of scenarios, scores in codified dance notation, and descriptions of dance dating from 1893 to 1983, many of which originated from copyright deposits submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office to register rights for choreography. Most of these scores are recorded in Labanotation (also known as Kinetography Laban), the system of dance notation that Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958) developed. George Balanchine, Doris Humphrey, Kurt Jooss, Léonide Massine, and...
Dates 1893-1983; Majority of material found within 1947-1983