Ann Hutchinson Guest

Ann Hutchinson Guest
Ann Hutchinson Guest, 29 May 2009
Born (1918-11-03) November 3, 1918
New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence London
Nationality American
Alma mater Dartington Hall
Organization

Language of Dance Centre, London

Dance Notation Bureau, New York
Known for Dance notation
Spouse(s) Ivor Forbes Guest
(m. 1962–2018, his death)
Website Language of Dance Centre

Ann Hutchinson Guest (born November 3, 1918)[1] is an American movement and dance researcher and a preeminent authority on dance notation, especially Labanotation. She wrote a history on the subject of dance notation, and her works have been translated into multiple languages. She is the co-founder of the Dance Notation Bureau, New York, 1940. She also founded the Language of Dance Centre (LODC) in London, England in 1967 as well as co-founding the Language of Dance Center USA in 1997.

Guest's work made possible the reconstruction of several ballets such as "Pas de Six" from La Vivandière, and L'Après-midi d'un faune by Vaslav Nijinsky.

She has received two honorary doctorates, and in 1997 received the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).[2] In 1998 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Dance Studies[3]

Works

  • Labanotation of Kinetography Laban: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement, 1970, New York: Theatre Arts Books. (First published 1954) ISBN 0-415-96562-4
  • Fanny Elssler's "Cachucha", 1981, London: Dance Books. ISBN 0-903102-59-5
  • Dance Notation, 1984, ISBN 0-87127-141-9
  • Choreographics: A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present, 1989, New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 90-5700-003-2
  • Your Move: A new approach to the study of movement and dance, 1995, New York: Gordon and Breach.
  • Articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Articles for The Dance Encyclopedia (1949)

A Selection from "The Sigurd Leeder Heritage" 2017 ISBN 978-1-906830-82-3

See also

References

  1. ↑ "DNBulletin, Fall 2007 (Vol. 10, No. 2) – Dance Notation Bureau" (PDF). Dance Notation Bureau. November 6, 2008. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  3. ↑ "Guggenheim Fellowships 1998". Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011.


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