Ann Hutchinson Guest is an internationally-recognized expert on dance notation

Dance notation

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...

. She wrote a history on the subject, and her works have been translated into multiple languages. She is the co-founder of the Dance Notation Bureau

Dance Notation Bureau

The Dance Notation Bureau is a New York, New York based repository of dance scores in Labanotation founded in 1940 with significant holdings of films, videotapes, photographs, programs and posters. At August 2007, it has commenced active work on the notation of dance works following a hiatus since...

, New York

New York

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, 1940. She also founded the Language of Dance Centre (LODC) in London

London

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, England in 1967.

Guest's work made possible the reconstruction of several ballets such as "Pas de Six" from La Vivandière, and L'Après-midi d'un faune

Afternoon of a Faun (ballet)

The ballet L'après-midi d'un faune was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on May 29, 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself....

by Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...

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She has received two honorary doctorates, and in 1997 received the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance

Congress on Research in Dance

Congress on Research in Dance is an international non-profit interdisciplinary society for dance researchers, artists, performers and choreographers. CORD publishes the Dance Research Journal, and sponsors annual conferences which distribute annual awards...

 (CORD). In 1998 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Dance Studies

Works

• Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement, 1970, ISBN 0-415-96562-4
• Your Move: A new approach to the study of movement and dance, 1995
• Choreographics: A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present, 1989, ISBN 90-5700-003-2
• Dance Notation, 1984, ISBN 0-87127-141-9
• Fanny Elssler's "Cachucha", 1981, London: Dance Books. ISBN 0-903102-59-5

External links

• http://www.lodc.org
• http://www.lodc.org/about-us/dr-ann-hutchinson-guest.html
• http://www.labanproject.com/bios.html#ann
• The Dance Encyclopedia
• http://danceheritage.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/danhutchID.xml;query=;brand=default