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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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Phil Cockfield
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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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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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Phil Cockfield
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"give me the freedom of strict constraints." ๐
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