<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">SignWriting List</div><div class="">May 31, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SW List members, and thank you, Sutthikhun, for this beautiful DanceWriting work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Although I gave the links in my message below, to your DanceWriting of the Myanmar/Burmese dances, I want to show the SW List members directly with this attached file, how beautiful your work is, both graphically and also technically. Your knowledge of how to write the dances is remarkable considering the old out-of-date DanceWriting textbooks that are available on the web.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is an example of Sutthikhun’s writing:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9D8FBC6F-05EE-4CE1-B51A-0C017FF86442" src="cid:70D96464-0782-4976-AE85-176B932BC0CB@san.rr.com" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div>_________</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 30, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <<a href="mailto:suttikunep@gmail.com" class="">suttikunep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello everyone!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The project about DanceWriting for a traditional Burmese dance is currently being processed. I'd like to say thanks to Valerie for publishing my work on the DW website. However, those beta-images published are just parts of my first experiment that may not be correct by so many DW's rules that I need to learn more about.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, I have found that the original DW system has something remaining ambiguous, e.g., shapes of the hand, face expressions, which have become more clearly distinguishable in the SignWriting system. So it would be very interesting if the symbols in the SW were able to fill in the missing symbols in the DW, which would be very helpful for some dances focused more on hand movements! As far as I know, a lot of dances in South and Southeast Asia are quite prominent in changing facial expressions and hand gestures during the dance. So I want to try making a DW for dances in this region starting with the Burmese dance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI: The series of Burmese dance steps in my project are called "Kabyar Lut", literally meaning Dance-without-Verse. The 125 steps of dance were codified in 1953 by Daw Oba Thaung, an eminent Burmese anyeint dancer and singer. But I would only write the DW some steps as a preliminary experiment based on provided youtube videos.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sutthikhun</div><div class="">:D</div></div></div><br class=""></div></blockquote>_________</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 02:46, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">May 28, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello John and everyone -</div><div class="">Yes. Of course you may share this email and any email publicly posted to the SignWriting List. All posts to the SignWriting List are free and open to share on the internet. So you have permission ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While I remember, I want to thank Valencia Community College in Florida, for providing the technology and the server that houses the SignWriting List. We are so fortunate to have this List!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did you know we have Archives of all our past messages? Every message is documented online. They are valuable resources. Archives 1 and 2 are housed on our SignWriting server, on the SignWriting web site. Archive 3 is a mirror Archive provided by <a href="http://linguhistlist.org/" target="_blank" class="">LinguistList.org</a> and Archive 4 is on Valencia Community College’s server in Florida.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the links to the 4 archives, go to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting List Archives</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 28, 2021, at 12:22 PM, John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank" class="">yottzumm@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">May I forward this email to the X3D-public mailing list, where Humanoid Animation (HAnim) ISO standards are discussed? Perhaps there is room for an iconic encoding of HAnim motion? Thanks!</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">John</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:04 PM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" target="_blank" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">May 28, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SignWriting List Members!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am happy to tell you that there are several new developments to share, in SignWriting, DanceWriting and Movement Writing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First, there are new DanceWriting developments...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sutton Movement Writing is a large movement notation system that can record any human movement. It started with DanceWriting, which was very active from 1973-1980, and has been waiting quietly in the background for years ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When SignWriting began to grow in the 1980s, our focus turned to SignWriting, since it is the section of the system that is the most used.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the DanceWriting system has been waiting patiently for writers to become inspired, and for me to choose to focus on it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the past few weeks I have been blessed with a new DanceWriting project that started on Facebook by <span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Sutthikhun Pheangphongsai.</span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Thank you, </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Sutthikhun, for this beautiful new work:</span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Writing Dances from Myanmar/Burma and Thailand</span></span></div><div class="">by <span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Sutthikhun Pheangphongsai</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">DanceWriting Sheet Dance</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Ethnic Dance Library</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><a href="https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic" target="_blank" class="">https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;font-style:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;font-style:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Here are examples and links to new web pages:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;font-style:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;font-style:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Burmese Traditional Dance</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><a href="https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Myanmar/Myanmar_Burma_dance_01.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Myanmar/Myanmar_Burma_dance_01.html</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Basic Burmese Traditional Dance</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><a href="https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Myanmar/Myanmar_Burma_dance_02.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Myanmar/Myanmar_Burma_dance_02.html</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Basic Thai Traditional Dance</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><a href="https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Thailand/Thailand_dance_01.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.dancewriting.org/library/ethnic/Thailand/Thailand_dance_01.html</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span id="gmail-m_-337766395480335552cid:179b46871f49bdb8b301" class=""><DanceWriting_Thai_20210528_PNG.png></span></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>________________________________________________

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