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Dance notation is the Symbolic representation of dance movement, it is Analogous to Movement Notation but can be limited to representing human movement and specific forms of dance such as Tap Dance . Various methods have been to used to visually represent dance movements including:
The primary use of dance notation is the documentation, analysis and reconstruction of Choreography and Dance Form s or technical Exercises . Many different forms of dance notation have been created but the two main systems used in Western Culture are Labanotation (also known as Kinetography Laban ) and Benesh Movement Notation . Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation and DanceWriting are also in use, but to a lesser extent. The first computerized notation system, which displayed an animated figure on the screen which performed the dance moves specified by the choreographer, was the ''DOM'' dance notation system, created by Eddie Dombrower on the Apple II Personal Computer in 1982 . (See ''Dance Notation Journal'', Fall, 1986, 4(2) pp. 47-48.) Several notation systems are used only for specific Dance Form s, for example, Shorthand Dance Notation (dances from Israel ), Morris Dance Notation ( Morris Dance ) and Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation ( Historical Dance s from the Baroque period). Hutchinson Guest's seminal book ''Choreographics'' ( 1989 ), compares thirteen historical and present-day dance notation systems (with visual examples) and through 'one to one' comparisons illustrates the advantages, and disadvantages of each system. The book is good introduction to the development and implementation dance notation systems. NOTATION AND COMPUTERS In the field of Dance Technology there are four areas of dance notation research and development:
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