<div dir="ltr"><div>Happy 40th Birthday SIGNWRITING!! ;))</div><div>maria</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 February 2014 23:12, Pel Tini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tinipel@bell.net" target="_blank">tinipel@bell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style>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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Tini.</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On 2014-02-24, at 12:40 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style><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/" target="_blank">DanceWriting</a> for writing dance choreography, <a href="http://www.signwriting.org/" target="_blank">SignWriting</a> for writing sign languages, <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/animation/mime/" target="_blank">MimeWriting</a> for writing classic mime and animated movement, <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/sports/" target="_blank">SportsWriting</a> for writing sports, and <a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/" target="_blank">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>________________________________________________
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