Tama: How a ballet teacher teaches students the movements for their roles?
Ballet teachers usually look at their notebooks while they teach. I’m interested what they look like. Do they use special language for that? Or just tips or drawings? In any case, what does it look like?
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Answer by Alexxx. <3(:
with the royal academy, they simply are books with the terms of movements, no drawings. for example: pau de borrais pique into pirouette preparation then double pirrouette; it would just say something like that
Answer by mintchips49
There is dance notation which is sort of like reading music for dance. The most often used for dance are Laban Notation and Benesh Movement Notatiion.
Here is a link to just a few of the symbols used for Laban notation. The symbol on the right of each drawing represents the symbol for the drawing. https://arpc167.epfl.ch/alice/WP_2011_S4/studiokoessler/files/2011/03/Labanotation02.jpg
This is how ballets are handed down from generation to generation and can still maintain the same choreography and staging.
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