dnb
extension
The Department of Dance has a
unique formal agreement with the Dance
Notation Bureau in New
York City, New York, the only one of its kind in the country.
The DNB Extension for Education and Research at OSU offers
summer workshops that include Teacher Certification and
Advanced Labanotation, and spearheads various curricular,
technology, and documentation projects. During the academic
year, courses taught in the department lead to Directing
from Score, the culmination of the Labanotation sequence.
OSU is the primary place where extensive coursework in Labanotation
is available.
Research
projects under the auspices of the DNB Extension include
development of LabanWriter, the software program for creating
dance scores. Other projects have been LabanLink, a prototype
for linking dance scores with various forms of documentation
in multimedia CD-ROM, and LabanReader, software to facilitate
score reading for the classroom.
DNB
Extension faculty have taught courses in Labanotation at
the American Dance Festival and serve on the Research Panel
of the International Council on Kinetography Laban and the
Professional Advisory Committee of the Dance Notation Bureau.
One faculty member is in the process of completing Professional
Notator Certification.
The
DNB Collection in OSU's Rare Books and Manuscripts is the
largest collection of dance notation scores in a university
library in the world. Scores and books on many different
systems of notation are available for research.
Link
to LabanLab
Link to Report
on Notation Software Conference |
