Dance Notation Bureau collection, [ca. 1957-ongoing].

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Dance Notation Bureau collection, [ca. 1957-ongoing].

Collection contains clipping, flyer/brochure, newsletter, press release, and catalog files.

5 folders.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7493971

Museum of Performance & Design

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Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.)

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The Dance Notation Bureau (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) was founded in 1940 by Ann Hutchinson Guest, Helen Priest Rogers, Eve Gentry, and Janey Price. The DNB mission is to advance the art of dance through the use of a system of notation, creating dance scores using the symbol system called Labanotation, named for Rudolf Laban who first published the system in 1928. In 1942, choreographer Eugene Loring requested a notation score of his Billy the Kid, the first ballet recorded in the Unit...