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| Sir
Peter Wright CBE DMus FBSM DLitt |
Benesh Notation is the most brilliant
and comprehensive way of recording movement. It also safeguards our
heritage and new works for future generations, and very importantly,
saves a great deal of money and time through the quick, efficient and
accurate way ballets can be taught. |
| Glen Tetley |
Benesh Movement Notation is absolutely essential as the working tool, the clear language and the concise memory of the choreographer.
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| Wayne
Sleep OBE DLitt FRSA |
If Benesh Notation had existed in John Durang's time in the 18th century, we would at least know if my attempt to recreate his hornpipe for Margot Fonteyn's Magic of the Dance was anything remotely like the original.
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| Peter Schaufuss |
The
work of The Benesh Institute is of great importance to ballet and dance
companies throughout the world. |
| David Bintley |
We
use Benesh Notation every day in number of ways to aid us in recording
and restaging pieces. If
we're doing a new ballet we have a notator who takes down the entire
ballet. If we're reviving a work we just get the score out and it means
a notator can then take the company through that piece without a ballet
master having to be there. Everything I do is recorded because it is
so easily and so quickly lost. It starts off as small details but in
the
end you find you lose the whole raison d'etre for why you did a particular
movement. In a complex lift, my intention is to get the overall effect,
but the notator will be looking exactly where the hands should be and
he'll be able to tell the dancer. That day-to-day kind of help, I think,
is almost as important as having the thing for the record. |
Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE
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Benesh Movement Notation fulfils a vital role in the preservation of our dance heritage. |
| Angelin Preljocaj |
La danse pour moi n'est pas l'art de l'éphémère, c'est juste un art quelque peu amnésique, lui rendre la mémoire c'est lui donner une écriture. La précision et la concision du système Benesh m'ont confortées dans cette idée de faire entrer dans les mœurs de la danse la notion de conservation des œuvres chorégraphique pas l'écriture.
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Roland Petit
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Tout pour la dance a éclairer le monde de l'art.
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| Rudolf Nureyev |
The
Benesh Institute with its teaching of choreology provides a service
to the history of ballet. It is a must.
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John Neumeier |
It always astounds me how quickly a good notator grasps and records movement.
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| Sir Kenneth MacMillan |
I am amazed when ballets are re-created without my being there. There it is in front of me all from a piece of paper. My original intention of movement is absolutely caught every time by Benesh Notation. |
| Marcia Haydée |
I would like to express how very important I find notation for the accuracy and speed of re-mounting ballets, and for preserving choreographers' works for us and for the next generation.
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| Maina
Gielgud AO |
So we'll have Royal Danish Ballet dancing Nureyev's Don Quixote from Australian Ballet's version with the latest changes from Paris Opera and all that thanks to Benesh Notation.
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| Dame Margot Fonteyn DBE, Prima Ballerina Assoluta (1979) |
Benesh Notation is absolutely invaluable to choreographers and to the preservation of repertoire.
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| Phyllis M. Fokine |
The Benesh Institute is making a unique and valuable contribution to the development of dance. Its translation of today's dances in a fixed form represents our best hope of placing dance on an equal footing with the other arts.
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| Sir Anthony Dowell CBE |
The
Royal Ballet life would be inconceivable without the use of Benesh Movement
Notation. It cuts down the rehearsal time by half. We have an enormous
repertoire to put on each season. When we revive works we have a notator
in the studio with us and they're there to be asked all the detailed
questions…. The teaching process is cut down by half. We
have lost so many interesting and varied ballets in the past. Benesh
Movement Notation ensures against this happening in the future. |
| Professor Joan White |
It is my belief that it is only when we recognise the value if notation will we really have the potential to become educated in dance and that dance as a discipline will come of age and be taken seriously as a subject of study. |
| Gary Harris Director: Royal New Zealand Ballet |
The
Benesh course was one of the best career moves I made, it has been invaluable
for my work as a teacher, repétiteurs and choreographer. Just
knowing the basics can really help. It is so simple and logical. |
| Christopher Hampson |
There is no better way to record a work. The precision and clarity with which my choreography can be recorded and recreated using Benesh Notation, not only aids the creative process but is an efficient use of time, studio space and therefore money. |
Georgina
Yacobi ARAD (RAD teacher working
in Israel) |
Knowing Benesh has proved really useful. I have been
able to teach the boy's syllabus without ever having taken a course on
it. I have cleared up so many problems by being able to read the notation
- It was certainly an inspired idea to have the vocational syllabus put
into BMN. |
BENESH NOTATION EDITOR QUOTES: |
Leslie Young:
San Francisco Ballet, Graduate: Certificate in BMN |
I just hooked up our printer and printed out the Odile solo. It's so pretty!!! I am so excited that the Benesh Notation Editor program exists and just love working with it!
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Patricia Tierney:
Notator: Birmingham Royal Ballet
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I am thoroughly enjoying getting to grips with the Editor.
I’ve never been big on computers but this is really addictive, and my scores
look wonderful in print – so easy to read. |
| Eva Lindstrom: Notator, Royal Swedish Ballet |
The Benesh Notation Editor training course was fantastic!!! Now I am back to my desk and pencil but I can't wait until the company gets us the program. Thanks again for three inspiring days. |
Yuri Uchiumi:
Notator: English National Ballet
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What an amazing invention this is! I am totally hooked on
the Editor, my only frustration being that I don’t have much free time
at the moment. |
Patricia Tierney:
Notator: Birmingham Royal Ballet
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I am thoroughly enjoying getting to grips with the Editor.
I’ve never been big on computers but this is really addictive, and my scores
look wonderful in print – so easy to read. |
| Kendra Johnson: Freelance notator |
The Benesh Notation Editor, once mastered, is quite simply a joy to use. Unlike pencil master scores, an infinite number of adjustments may be made whilst the pages remain blissfully clean. As a result the master score was completed with greater speed and considerably less heartache. My pencils, once severely overworked, now find themselves in semi-retirement.
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