Your Move

Ann Hutchinson Guest is the world's leading authority on teaching dance notation. She is the author of the classic Labanotation, now in its 4th edition from Routledge, which has life sales of over 60,000 copies. She is also the Director of the Language of Dance Centre, London.Tina Curran is director of the Language of Dance Center, New York.

• Introduction, Chapter One – Movement; Stillness; Timing; Shape; Accents.Chapter Two – Traveling Chapter Three – Variations In Traveling Chapter Four – Absence of Support: Springing (Elevation): The Five Basic Forms Chapter Five – Direction—Definition of Space Chapter Six – Direction—Broader Exploration of Space Chapter Seven – Flexion; Extension Chapter Eight – Rotations, Revolutions, Turns Chapter Nine – Supporting; Change of Support Chapter Ten – Balance, Loss of Balance Chapter Eleven – Relationships Chapter Twelve – Relationships: Further Development Chapter Thirteen – Body Initiations: Central, Peripheral; Part Leading, Guidance Chapter Fourteen – One-Sided Gestures; Gestural Pathways; Gathering, Scattering Chapter Fifteen – Directions: The Diagonals Chapter Sixteen – Turning of Body Parts: Unit Rotation, Twist Chapter Seventeen – Flexion and Extension: Specific Forms Chapter Eighteen – Relationship: Situations in Meeting; Looking Chapter Nineteen – Specific Directional Actions Chapter Twenty – Destination, Motion Chapter Twenty-One – Direction: Systems of Reference Chapter Twenty-Two – Timing; Phrasing; Dynamics—Recapitulation, Conclusion