Frontier - Dance Notations

An exploration into the art of documenting dance.

Dance notation is the symbolic representation of the movement in choreography, a coded language to transcribe the human body while dancing. Frontier is an exploration into the art of documenting dance. This is done through the use of gestural, movement inspired mark-making, then translation into symbols.

Frontier aims to distil and capture the body in motion, to see if it’s possible to produce a system capable of communicating dance through a graphic translation. A movement alphabet is created and codified which acts as a starting point for re-inventing the dance notation system. This project brings awareness to the lack of choreography preservation for dancers in my generation; much like music is notated, dance should be also.