Action stroke dance notation
Dance notation by Iver Cooper
Action Stroke Dance Notation (ASDN) is a dance notation system that was invented by Iver Cooper. Designed for fast writing, the notations primarily consist of "action strokes" that represent one of three basic actions:
a support gesture that takes weight (e.g., hop or step)
a touch gesture (makes contacts without taking weight)
an air gesture (makes no contact)
A dance score has five sections:
general – describing the general movement of the dancer
leg (or staff) – indicating movement of the legs and feet
arm (or staff) – indicating movement of the arms and hands
trunk – indicating movement of head, neck, chest and pelvis
notes – detailed explanations of the movement
Scores are read from bottom to top. The horizontal dimension represents body symmetry and the vertical dimension represents time. ASDN employs abstract symbols and is visually similar to Motif description, a subset of Labanotation that is also designed for speed of writing.
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