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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

 
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