ABSTRACT
Dance notation systems are the most classical manual device to record and archive dance movement sequences. They are used for notation and archiving of dance choreographies in most dance companies and represent the most systematic attempt at capturing way dance movement is structured over a music score. Targeting the very act of translating dance and issue related to the gap between a live dance performance and its archived form, Grabriele Brandstetter poses the issue of an inevitable transformation involved in the process. The linguistic approach to dance is still garnering considerable interest, especially in investigation of similarities and differences between dance and verbal language and differences between dance and verbal languages both as forms of communication. Investigating dance through a socio-semiotic approach means considering dance not just as an art form, a type of performance, a phenomenon specifically situated in time and place; investigating dance through a socio-semiotic approach means considering dance as a continuously evolving form of social semiosis.
