Motif Description - Introducing the Elements of Dance
Motif Description is a form of Labanotation that pares movement down to its essence — actions and stillness. Many of the same symbols from Labanotation are used in Motif. In Motif Description, only the most essential aspects of a movement are recorded. Motif is used in a variety of ways: composition, teaching children, movement analysis, or highlighting a character's action in a scene for example.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Action and Pause
2 given studies
2 solutions to the third given study
3. Traveling
All solve a given study
2 students' studies
4. Jumps
1 given study
5. Turning
6. Up and Down
3 solutions to a given study
7. Flexion and Extension
2 students' studies to music of their own choice (Permission for use of musc was not granted, so music was superimposed)
8. Directions
All solve a given study to music.
3 solutions, with music, to a given motif of the 9 count phrase from Humphrey's PAsacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (Bach).
9. Initiations
All solve a given study to music
3 solutions to another given study
2 students' studies
10. Relationships
1 solution to a given study
2 solutions to another given study
1 student's duet study
11. Mid-Term Study: Flexion, Extension, Traveling, Directions
3 solutions to a given study with own choice of music (the first study had music superimposed)
12. Rebecca Lott-Reddick's Motif Study
All solve the given study to music
For more information visit:
- Labanotation Basics
Motif Description Basics- Language of Dance Center, USA
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (formerly Laban Centre)