[Sw-l] Simplified DanceWriting for Footstep Dances

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 29, 2022

Actually there are several DanceWriting videos created by Sutthikhun. The DanceWriting moves frame by frame with counts to the music following the dancer, so that is called DanceWriting captions… very cool.... Here is one from Burma:

https://youtu.be/-234GveoWKk





…and another one is coming...

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> On Apr 27, 2022, at 8:37 AM, Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
> 
> SignWriting List
> April 27, 2022
> 
> Hello SignWriting List and Sutthikhun! I am absolutely in love with this video:
> 
> DW-captioned video by Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai :
> https://youtu.be/v91uPtRtsr4
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> And I really love the way you put the foot symbols for stepping instead of the stepping dots that were normally used in the old ballet-related DanceWriting. I think that's a terrific idea and I love it!
> 
> And I truly appreciate the description in your email below. Thank you so much for your Movement Writing and DanceWriting documents and videos. There is another dance video that you created that is so terrific and I will look for that link later and post it. It is a gem.
> 
> So thank you once again, Sutthikhun, for everything.
> 
> Val ;-)
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>> On Apr 25, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <suttikunep at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Hello SW List Members, 
>> 
>> I just had nostalgia about student activities and experience in the university that I graduated from. Mahidol University (Salaya Campus), outside Bangkok, is where I graduated from. Because students from all around the country have gathered here, there are lots of activities to build relationships between faculties and colleges. The students have created a variety of dances for group dancing and singing in several ice-breaking activities.
>> 
>> Footstep is one of the easiest movements to practice and can be performed in groups ranging from a few to over 100 people. Although I used to dance dozens of moves while I was still in the school, including many footstep dances, I have forgotten all of them except for "Salaya Step" because the move is very easy to practice. At that time, I had attempted to notate those dances, but I had no idea how to take notes, so I gave up. But now that I know how to use DanceWriting to notate movements, I decided to transcribe the "Salaya Step," which is the only dance I can recognize to this day.
>> 
>> Initially, I meant to notate according to the traditional DW, but I've realized that footstep dances just involve leg and foot movement. So, similar to the development of SignWriting, I believe that if the DW can be simplified to note some parts of the body, it will be very efficient. When SW is a variant of DW that has been designed to be appropriate for writing only head, hand, and trunk movement, I think it could also be used to write DW for foot dances in a simpler way!
>> 
>> See my DW-captioned video here:
>> https://youtu.be/v91uPtRtsr4
>> 
>> Note:
>> This is a notation that has been modified from the original DW to suit only leg and foot dances. It's written from the Expressive viewpoint like that of SW, so dancers can look at it and practice without having to mirror the image.
>> 
>> 😉 Hope you enjoy watching the video,
>> Sutthikhun
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