<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Valerie,</div><div>Happy Birthday!!!!</div><div>Denny from the United Arab Emirates<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:24 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">SignWriting List<div class="">February 22, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The document is in Portuguese ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think Lauro may have been influenced by some photos I placed on the web once, showing a dancer and then drawing a stick figure on top of the photos - of course DanceWriting is a bit more formal than just that, but in recent years I have been wondering if maybe all the detail we placed in DanceWriting wasn’t so necessary after all - I think the basic stick figure is wonderful and really works for everyone, and there is nothing new about that - stick figures are as old as the cave drawings and natural to our thinking -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So you know, the Position Symbols that are underneath the old DanceWriting documents that are so detailed…I am not so sure they are always needed - years ago I was under pressure because we were being compared to other dance notation systems - and one of the arguments was that DanceWriting was “too visual” and not detailed enough - so I added details with abstract symbols under the stick figure - nothing wrong with that either, and the Position Symbols do work and give added information on depth and certainly can still be used, but I notice that new people learning DanceWriting ignore a lot of the details and still find value in the basic visual nature of the system…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Right now it seems that our books are being purchased on <a href="http://Amazon.com" class="">Amazon.com</a> most of the time, and the best seller for DanceWriting is our old “Collection of Classical Ballet Variations” that does have the formal details as well as the stick figure:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in Amazon</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Classical-Ballet-Variations-Valerie/dp/0914336193" class="">http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Classical-Ballet-Variations-Valerie/dp/0914336193</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but it also can be downloaded for free on the DanceWriting site:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.dancewriting.org/acrobat/ballet/Collection_Ballet_Variation.pdf" class="">http://www.dancewriting.org/acrobat/ballet/Collection_Ballet_Variation.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.dancewriting.org/library/ballet/index.html" class="">http://www.dancewriting.org/library/ballet/index.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but back to SignWriting...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">----------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Pel Tini <<a href="mailto:tinipel@BELL.NET" class="">tinipel@BELL.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Hello Valerie and Lauro,</div><div class="">Very interesting and enjoyed reading it. I was able to see which way you are facing, although I got confused a bIt relating the photos with the drawings.</div><div class="">Would be fun to get together, although I can not understand or write Spanish. Is it Spanish?</div><div class="">Thanks Valerie for posting this on the list.</div><div class="">Hope all is well with you.</div><div class="">Tini.<br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPad</div><div class=""><br class="">On Feb 21, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM" class="">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">February 21, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Madson Barreto told me about a paper written on DanceWriting in Brazil -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.def.unir.br/downloads/1243_notacao_coreografica__aplicacao_do_sistema_dancewrite___shor.pdf" class="">http://www.def.unir.br/downloads/1243_notacao_coreografica__aplicacao_do_sistema_dancewrite___shor.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much to Madson for telling me about this paper …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And thank you to the author, Lauro Leudo dos Santos Batista, for writing it in 2009...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you scroll down in the document, you can see it is writing belly dancing, with stick figures -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lots of fun!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>________________________________________________
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