Summary; Direction of motion. Several formats are used to write lines of motion and while the writing formats are different, these all represent space according to the same concept of deflecting diagonals and inclinations. Comparing these signs to present-day Labanotation, only “direction of the progression” signs (Fig. 42) offer a complete representation of motion, however they do not afford a ready method for representing deflecting diagonal orientations, the closest possibility might be to combine signs into a direction of progression ‘half-way’ between a dimensional and a diagonal (Fig. 43).
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Figure 42. “Direction of the progression” signs represent lines of motion (Hutchinson Guest, 1983, p. 261).
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Figure 43. Half-way direction of progression as dimensionally deflecting diagonals (inclinations).
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As described above, after the decisions in 1927 ‘steps’ were to be represented as motions in the support column; but as can be seen by comparing this with direction of progression, it is only sometimes true (Fig. 44).
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Figure 45. Toward / away signs.
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Thus, it can be seen that motion writing methods in Choreographie demonstrate concepts for analysis and also theories of ‘harmony’
which have not continued into Labanotation today.
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