Educational Performance Collection

The “Educational Performance Collection Series” by the Dance Notation Bureau comprises five sets of comprehensive resources for contemporary choreographies.

Featured choreographers include Rachal Lambert, Buzz Miller, Moses Pendleton, Anna Sokolow, and Clay Taliaferro.

Each set includes:

  • MP4 of the dance performance
  • MP4 of the choreographer preparing the dance in rehearsal or in class
  • A written critical analysis (ca. 50 pp.) of the dance
  • Introductory article on the dance notation used to document the choreography
  • Complete Labanotation score with additional notated classwork of the choreographer
  • Performance rights to the dance
  • Permission for unlimited performance of the dances.

Please note that due to the copyright issue, the DNB cannot sell music scores and recordings. However, music scores and rehearsal CDs are available for rental from the DNB library with a small circulation fee.

This initiative was made possible through a grant from the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mobil Foundation, Inc.

The cost for each collection is $750, encompassing a one-time royalty fee and a 5% shipping and handling charge.

THE LABANOTATED WORKS:

1
What’s Remembered by Rachel Lambert

Music: Jörns, LeClair, Spohr and spoken text

5 women, 5 men; 20 minutes

“My work is generally very personal, somewhat autobiographical, usually with a sense of humor” by R. Lambert

Music: Cage, Nancarrow, Rose and Scriabin

9 women, 6 men; 24 minutes

Miller’s upbeat jazz dance vocabulary can capture the posturing tempo and vehemence of street life.

Music: tape collage

2 men, 9 women or men; 20 minutes

Pendleton’s work with organisms…and with projection of dancers’ shadows are to be viewed as shapes, planes and flow rather than people in motion.

Music: Charles Ives

7 women, 5 or 7 men; 23 minutes

“Does [the music] touch you enough to make you feel, ‘I want to do this?’ Then you go to work” by A. Sokolow.

Music: Claude Debussy

5 women, 1 men; 15 minutes

Falling Off the Back Porch is about Humphrey-Limón dance technique and its continuing creative potential.

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