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Transferring the weight. Path signs refer to both gestural paths and also travelling paths across the floor. The basic unit of travelling, transferring the weight, is shown in the script with a dark ‘dot’. The dark dot is common in Labanotation and is also used in several ways in Choreographie for indications of downward motion or gravity. The dot occurs in directional signs (see above) and also in various ‘body’ indications such as contact with the floor, placed in the body cross indicating the centre of gravity moving downward, or in series indicating transfers of weight such as hopping or leaping or as a more general motif indicating transfers of weight (Fig. 50).
Path signs and transfer of weight in Choreographie are similar to script presented earlier by Klemm (1910, pp. 54-59, 103-109) in musical motifs with dance script on the lower line giving indications of level (dots, marks, increasing/decreasing), transfers of weight to right or left (‘notes’ with stems on right/left sides) and path signs (spiral) (Fig. 51).
These earlier dance script signs were obviously an influence on the similar scripts used by Laban (1926, pp. 56-58) who virtually duplicates Klemm’s (1910) notations though never cites Klemm and also omits details of the earlier script (Longstaff, 2004). Transferring the weight and travelling are elaborated in the “Floor-path: Mixed-scale” where four representations are given of the same sequence; a kind of ‘Rosetta stone’ with the same series of paths read in four types of scripting (Fig. 52).
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