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Valerie Sutton in a dance pose... Dancewriting.jpg|...and its corresponding "Sutton DanceWriting" notation In the 1680s,
Pierre Beauchamp invented a dance notation system for Baroque dance. His system, known as
Beauchamp–Feuillet notation, was published in 1700 by
Raoul Auger Feuillet and used to record dances throughout the eighteenth century. A well-known collection of dance scores is the
Sergeyev Collection, recorded using
Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov's notation method (1892). This collection documents the
Imperial Ballet's (today the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet) repertoire from the turn of the 20th century, including
Marius Petipa's original choreographic designs for
The Sleeping Beauty,
Giselle,
Le Corsaire, and
Swan Lake, as well as
Coppélia and the original version of
The Nutcracker. It was with this collection that many of these works were first staged outside Russia. In 1934, the composer
Joseph Schillinger created a highly accurate notation system based on the 3D bone rotation and translation of a moving dancer. With
motion capture technology half a century in the future, there was no way to effectively measure and record this information at the time. In 1948,
Hanya Holm became the first Broadway choreographer to have her dance scores copyrighted, for her work on
Kiss Me, Kate. In 1951, Stanley D. Kahn published
Kahnotation, a dance notation system specific to
tap dance. In 1956, Rudolf and Joan Benesh first published
Benesh Movement Notation, a written system for recording human movement. It is most widely used in the recording and restaging of dance works. In 1958, Eshkol and Wachman published an exposition of
their movement notation. In 1969, Romanian choreographer Theodor Vasilescu published a dance notation system for Romanian
folk dances. In the 1970s,
North Korean choreographer U Chang-sop developed a system of dance notation for
Korean dance called the Chamo System of Dance Notation, which uses pictorially based symbols. In 1975,
Ann Hutchinson Guest reconstructed choreographer
Arthur Saint-Léon's
Pas de Six from his 1844 ballet
La Vivandière, along with its original music by composer
Cesare Pugni, for the
Joffrey Ballet. The piece was reconstructed from Saint-Léon's work, which was documented using his own method of dance notation, known as
La Sténochorégraphie. In 1982, the first computerized notation system—the
DOM (Dance on Microprocessor) dance notation system—was created by
Eddie Dombrower for
Apple II computers. The system displayed an animated figure on the screen that performed dance moves specified by the choreographer. In 2017, Felipe Hsieh created
Tango Notation, a dance notation system specific to Argentine tango. ==See also==