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A Tentative Notation System for Kashaya Pomo Dances
Susan McMurray, California State College, Sonoma, Rohnert Park
ABSTRACT:
Given the inadequacies of narrative description
and filming, dance notation is singularly
efficient as a mode of recording movement
for future analysis. It allows the maximum
in clarity and detail with the minimum
expenditure of time and energy.
In deciding which of the movement notation
systems in current use might be the most
practical in recording Kashaya Pomo dances, I
found both Labanotation (Hutchinson 1954)
and Benesh notation (Benesh and Benesh
1969) to be too complex for my purposes, and
the system devised by G. Kurath in her work
with the Tewa (Kurath and Garcia 1970) to be
too simplified. Therefore, the obvious alternative
was to devise a system of my own which could be especially tailored to Kashaya Pomo dances.
KEYWORDS:
ethnology, archaeology, ethnohistory, native peoples
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Susan McMurray
(1977)
"A Tentative Notation System for Kashaya Pomo Dances",
The Journal of California Anthropology:
Vol. 4:
No. 1,
Article 11.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucmercedlibrary/jca/vol4/iss1/art11
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