This historic book is the first book ever written on the Sutton Movement Writing system, written by Valerie Sutton in 1972-1973, after returning from Denmark where Sutton used her stick-figure notation system to write the beautiful dances of the Royal Danish Ballet's system of ballet training, called the Bournonville Schools. Sutton used her personal writing system from age 15 to 19, recording her own choreography and writing dances she learned while in professional ballet training in Southern California, but at age 19, in 1970, Sutton traveled to Denmark to train with teachers of the Royal Danish Ballet to learn the world-famous Bournonille training. To Sutton's surprise, at the time in 1970, there were very few notations or recordings of these historic dance steps, and so she naturally began to write the dances she was learning. After two years of studying daily with the world-renowned Bournonville teacher Edel Pedersen, Sutton had recorded the complete Bournonville Barres and 5 Bournonville Schools in her notation system. Through this experience, the system evolved and improved, culminating in the writing of this first book on her system, Sutton Movement Shorthand, Book One, The Classical Ballet Key, which she wrote when returning to her home in Newport Beach, California in 1972-1973. The director of the Royal Danish Ballet, Fleming Flindt, invited Valerie Sutton back to Copenhagen in 1974, to teach Sutton DanceWriting to the Royal Danish Ballet. This book was used in that historic course, and through the experience of teaching the Royal Danish Ballet, Sutton improved the DanceWriting system which can now be learned with other textbooks, such as DanceWriting For Classical Ballet or DanceWriting for Modern and Jazz Dance. Also read the Bournonville Schools, Three Bournonville Barres and Bournonville Schools, The Monday School.

Sutton Movement Shorthand, Book One: The Classical Ballet Key

Valerie Sutton

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Sutton Movement Writing Press

The Three Bournonville Barres

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Music

Center Sutton Movement Writing

The Bournonville Schools, Monday School

The Collection of Classical Ballet Variations includes 6 classical ballet variations as taught by ballet stars of the the Ballet Russe: Lila Zali, Nana Gollner and Irina Kosmovska, written in Sutton DanceWriting by Valerie J Sutton, Kathy Kahn and Mary Catherine Kaminski. The six dances are: Princess Florisse s Solo from The Blue Bird Pas De Deux, Female Variation from Don Quixote Pas De Deux, The Lilac Fairy Solo Variation from The Sleeping Beauty, The Sugar Plum Fairy Solo Variation from The Nutcracker, Princess Aurora s Variation from The Sleeping Beauty, Act I, and The Dance of The Four Little Swans from Swan Lake. A short introduction to learning to read DanceWriting is included, and Gene Vandervoort s illustrations give a feeling for the costumes and look of each dance. This book is a classic in DanceWriting Sheet Dance.

Collection of Classical Ballet Variations

Center for Sutton Movement Writing Inc

The SignWriting Basics Instruction Manual is a 42-page spiral-bound book designed for the classroom. Learn the basic symbols of SignWriting quickly and visually, an excellent introduction to the International SignWriting Alphabet. Examples in the book are written in American Sign Language (ASL), with illustrations and short sentences in English. Learn how to read and write the basic handshapes, contact symbols, finger movements, arm movements and facial expressions of any sign language. About the SignWriting Script: Over 40 sign languages around the world are becoming written languages, because of the SignWriting Script, which will be in Unicode v.8 in 2015. SignWriting literature, dictionaries and email are available on your computer desktop, on the web, and on tablets and phones using SignPuddle.org and SignWriterStudio.com. Why write sign language? Reading and writing sign languages preserves the beauty and culture of Deaf people and their native languages, sign languages, and aids in teaching sign languages to both Deaf and hearing people. Every language, whether spoken or signed, benefits from reading and writing, aiding in written translations between languages. Other publications that use or refer to SignWriting: Lessons in SignWriting Textbook by Valerie Sutton on Amazon.com A Handful of Spells: a novel by Kimberley A. Shaw, available on Amazon.com

SignWriting Basics Instruction Manual

SignWriting Press

American Sign Language Hand Symbols Manual in SignWriting

Adam Frost

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