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Ann Hutchinson Guest Examines Nijinsky’s Famous Ballet

Published: February 20, 2007

“Ann Hutchinson Guest, internationally celebrated as the foremost authority on dance notation, will present a free public lecture on Vaslav Nijinsky’s famous ballet “L’Après-midi d’un Faune” on Saturday, February 24 at 3 p.m. in Goucher College’s Merrick Lecture Hall.

Guest will share the historical background of this much-discussed ballet, along with Nijinsky’s production notes and notation system. She will analyze the choreographic style of the ballet, and relate the research problems encountered in the transcription, revival, and translation of the dance into Labanotation. Guest is uniquely qualified to speak on this topic—working with Claudia Jeschke in 1987; Guest deciphered Nijinsky’s system of dance notation.”

I thought this was a presentation about dance notation, how to use it, but this sounds interesting anyway. Nijinsky’s Faune is a unique ballet, and the lecturer will examine his notes, etc. so perhaps it will be like a lecture on notation using this ballet as an example.

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