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Article: A different career option.(dance notation)(Column)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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I was fifteen years old when I made my way to the south of France to study dance at Rosella Hightower's Centre de Danse International, a conservatory with training that includes academic study in addition to a variety of dance disciplines. During my first summer there I learned that there was a way to write dance, but even though this technique, known as dance notation, was stimulating intellectually, I was going to be a dancer and therefore had no serious interest in it.
A couple of years later, during a rehearsal, I pinched a nerve in my spine; even though I was in pain, I continued dancing. No one was going to take my role away from me! Only when I sat down and ...