<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Valerie<div>I it was 1974.<div>We were there during the International seminar as we were together with a representative from York university Toronto Ontario dance department. I had some students with me as you were introducing the dance writing to some of the ballet classes, the ones we attended.</div><div>I tried to find my early notes, but things are still in boxes including the older files. </div><div>By the way I found your book SIGNED !!!!!!!!! A beautiful attitude by the way. </div><div>So congratulations Valerie. You have given us 40 if not more years of enjoying and sharing your invention to many Canadian dance students and I am still working with the system all is it with adult ballet students. It is really a help, having them writing their exercises down and practicing at home to come back to the next class knowing their "stuff"</div><div>Below is a picture of the cover of your book one with your signature on the inside.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img id="40182153-4043-4005-bf8f-266cac42cbb6" height="594" width="380" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5A3FD125-9B64-45C8-AB13-70895FFC95B3@gateway.2wire.net"><img id="c6c18a17-7c06-493c-8637-c0b2cddf8607" height="594" width="386" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D243B877-7D4E-40C0-A9BB-427939AD4EB3@gateway.2wire.net"></div><div>Thank you soooo much Valerie</div><div><br></div><div>Tini.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2014-02-24, at 5:45 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div>February 24, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you! Yes, SignWriting is 40 years old in 2014!</div><div><br></div><div>This is a time for celebration and also reflection - I was just reviewing my history papers for 1974, and it was a very active year - so I am trying to document 1974, which was the beginning of 4 out of 5 sections of our system. Only SportsWriting came later…. I had actually forgotten some of these details, until I found some old documents that recorded the history…I must have been awfully energetic to do so much - I guess 40 years has reduced my energy level a bit!</div><div><br></div><div>Tini - what year did we meet in Copenhagen? Was it 1974? Or was it earlier, 1970-1972? - I kept traveling back and forth - I was in and out of Denmark, 1970-1976…and then I settled down in Boston -</div><div><br></div><div>So I will post the history for the year 1974, which is 40 years ago -</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Feb 24, 2014, at 2:17 PM, maria galea <<a href="mailto:signwriting.maria@GMAIL.COM">signwriting.maria@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Happy 40th Birthday SIGNWRITING!! ;))</div><div>maria</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 24, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Pel Tini <<a href="mailto:tinipel@bell.net">tinipel@bell.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes Valerie,<div>I would very much like to read and print-out the history of dance and sign writing so I can make a print-out to put in front of my dance writing notes. I can show everyone. If you find the time.</div><div>I'll be watching.</div><div><br></div><div>Tini.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>———</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Marie Alexander <<a href="mailto:marie.alexander@UM.EDU.MT">marie.alexander@UM.EDU.MT</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Valerie,<br><br>Here in Malta we are definitely interested. We hope you will post more details on the<br>history of SignWriting.<br><br>Cheers<br>Marie<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>---------<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><div>On 2014-02-24, at 12:40 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;">SignWriting List</div><div style="margin: 0px;">February 24, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In February 2014, Sutton Movement Writing is 40 years old!</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Sutton Movement Writing & Shorthand is a large writing system for recording all body movement. It includes five sections: <a href="http://www.dancewriting.org/">DanceWriting</a> for writing dance choreography, <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/">SignWriting</a> for writing sign languages, <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/animation/mime/">MimeWriting</a> for writing classic mime and animated movement, <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/sports/">SportsWriting</a> for writing sports, and <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/">MovementWriting</a>, for writing scientific studies on gesture analysis.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">February 1974 … DanceWriting began officially with the announcement of the first book</div><div style="margin: 0px;">February 1974 … non-profit organization began in Southern California, USA</div><div style="margin: 0px;">October 1974 … SignWriting, MimeWriting (for classic mime) and MovementWriting began in Denmark</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The non-profit organization behind the system was first established in February, 1974, under the name “The Movement Shorthand Society”, in Newport Beach, California. Later the name changed to “The Center for Sutton Movement Writing. It is now located in La Jolla, California, and provides free services to the world on the web.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Are you interested in more history here on the SignWriting List? I am writing our history right now, and I can post more details, but only if you are interested - I can tell you in more detail about the research projects in Denmark and so forth...</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Val ;-)</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>________________________________________________
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