The time is NOW to renew your membership with the DNB or perhaps join
for the first time. Please read the following letter from Lynne Weber
our Executive Director:
August,
2009
Dear Members and Prospective Members,
Thank you for your interest in the Dance Notation Bureau, and for the
support you have given. I hope you will join us as a member in this
our 70th year in operation! We have had a very successful year with
our programs. We are completing the last of seven notation projects
of Martha Graham works that include Appalachian Spring and Celebration.
This year, contracts have been completed to stage 18 dances (77 performances)
and stagings for another 12 dances are currently in progress. This summer,
significant work is being done to place our catalog of notated theatrical
dances on-line in an easily usable form on the internet. We are also
beginning to offer Elementary Labanotation as an on-line course through
Hofstra University.
Administratively, we've completed a successful move to our lovely new
offices in downtown Manhattan, and are paying only slightly more than
we did under the old ten-year lease. What a find! Our archive is especially
nice. Everyone worked very hard on the move.
As you are keenly aware, the economy is touching everyone. We have been
affected in a number of ways: 1) several organizations that have funded
the DNB consistently over the years have indicated we will be receiving
significantly less, if anything at all this year; 2) individual donations
from dedicated individuals who have funded us are unable to continue
at the same levels as in the past; and 3) interest made on our endowment
money, though safe, has been at much-reduced rates of return. (None
of the money was lost because we invested in FDIC insured CDs.)
In the mean time, so many of our required expenses have gone up. Without
some increased support, we will be forced into very difficult cuts.
Any help and support you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Please take a moment to complete the membership
form and mail to the DNB with your check. Or you may pay through
PayPal with your credit card.
Join us in keeping Dance Notation alive!
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Lynne Weber
Executive Director
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Lynne
Weber on Internet Radio
Virginia Reed, host of "A
Woman's Perspective" at Progressive Radio Network and the President
of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, interviewed Lynne
Weber, DNB Executive Director and Board Chair addressing the relevance
of notation today, the history of notation and relationship between
the DNB and LIMS, both historically and currently. The program was aired
on October 31, 2008. Now the whole broadcasting is archived,
so that people have an opportunity to listen via internet.
DNB Correspondence
Courses
Dear Dance
Administrator,
Learning Labanotation can open a world of dance repertory, history and
research to the right student. The ability to stage historic dance repertory
from Labanotation score can give your graduate an edge over other applicants
in the tough dance job market. Many universities accept Labanotation
as a fulfillment of a foreign language requirement, as well. The Dance
Notation Bureau offers a correspondence
course that can serve all these purposes. Do you have a special
student who should take one of our courses as an independent study?
DNB
has a Blog
Here's some news for all you virtual reality, web-surfing,
Labanotation loving types -- The DNB has entered the blogosphere! Read
the blog by visiting http://dancenotation.blogspot.com
or by subscribing to it with an RSS reader. If you are not familiar with
RSS readers, here's a great intro: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
Stagings
Around the World
For recent stagings around the world, please click
here.
The Dance Notation Bureau is constantly adding new, revised, and transcribed
scores to its collection. Below is a list of some recent acquisitions:
New
Scores
Appalachian Spring by Martha Graham, 1944. Notation by Sandra
Aberkalns, 2008-2009. Daughters
of the Lonesome Isle by Jean Erdman, 1945. Notation revised by
Jennifer Garda, 2006-2008. Lamentation
[Peggy Lyman Version] by Martha Graham, 1930. Notated by Mira Kim,
2008. Primitive
Mysteries by Martha Graham, 1931. Notated by Sandra Aberkalns,
2007-2008. Panorama
by Martha Graham, 1935. Notated by Mary Corey, 2008.
Revised
and Transcribed Scores
Dark Meadow by Martha Graham, 1946. Notated by Susie Watts
Margolin, 1964. Transcribed into LabanWriter by Mira Kim, 2009. Diversion
of Angels by Martha Graham, 1948. Notated by Muriel Topaz, 1967-1971.
Transcribed into LabanWriter by Mira Kim, 2009.
