[Sw-l] Sutton DanceWriting: Na ṭarāja

[Suzanne Pach]

Thanks Val and Ae for the explanation. Very interesting :)

Suzanne

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 11:06 PM Valerie Sutton <
0000001342802f5f-dmarc-request at listserv.valenciacollege.edu> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> August 9, 2021
>
> Thank you, Suzanne and Ae, for this discussion. It is fun to think about
> why this happened. To explain:
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> Ae is correct. DanceWriting started first, and at that time, in the early
> 1970s, ballet was and is still very stylized. Facial expressions and even
> head movements were not as important as the rest of the body, and so, by
> placing the Head Circle to the left or right of the rest of the body on the
> 5-lined staff, we could write classical ballet on a 5-lined staff, under
> the music notes or counts, without our Head Circle in the way of the rhythm.
>
> I realize this is surprising to those who write sign languages, like we do
> today, but here are some examples of the writing at that time, in Denmark
> in the 1970s. There were no personal computers yet, no cell phones, no
> digitizing fast, and so by hand it was easier to write this way: See
> diagrams attached. We used wax transfer sheets. The Facial Direction Line
> was easy to write by hand like a little line crossing the shoulders showing
> the direction of the nose:
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