Educational Performance Collection
The “Educational Performance Collection Series” by the Dance Notation Bureau comprises five sets of comprehensive resources for contemporary choreographies.
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
2 Not For Love Alone by Buzz Miller
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.
3 Children on the Hill by Moses Pendleton
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.
4 Scenes From the Music of Charles Ives by Anna Sokolow
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.
5 Falling Off the Back Porch by Clay Taliaferro
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.