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Notation showing the positions of the arms in 18th century ballet From "Traite sur l'art de la danse" (Malpied, 1789)
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Oh wow! Yes yes...these kinds of notation "standards" are huge unlocks for propagating understanding. I wonder what the felt effect within the ballet community was like in 1789 (and the following decade). I heard there was a massive unlock in Origami when they came up with tje standardised notation system, and folds that had previously been considered impossible (and for hundreds of years), suddenly started falling away like flys as the community absorbed and amplified the skill though the relationship networks. And just from an "shared encoding" agreement - standards really do make the world!
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@nemocake - may I please become a member of /schematics? @sinusoidalsnail knows me, and may be able to vouch for me as a member (I hope). Thank you so much. I have a deep abiding love for Schematics and the Tufte-esque art of depicting complex ideas in visuals.
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Oh! And also, for what it's worth, those 5 positions of the arms are pretty much still spot on today. So, with or without written systems of notation, the standardization still persisted I guess lol
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Yeah! But what I think is particularly interesting about dance notation, is that standardized notation never really took off. As far as I know, there was a decently popular notation system for baroque dances. And that was adapted by some other people to develop a few different notation systems for ballet. But the use of those systems never really became popular amongst dancers and choreographers, outside of formally archiving stuff for people's records. Probably because it's just easier to communicate physically, person-to-person, than to translate onto paper. But what ballet does have, is a LOT of standardized technique and terminology. So, in a way, what you say about Origami probably does apply to ballet! But maybe it's just that, the standardization is in the standardized way it's communicated and taught, from person-to-person. Instead of the way it's written on paper πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ
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