A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies; Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition; the first complete revision of the text since 1977.Initiated by the movement genius Rudolf Laban; and refined through fifty years of work by teachers here and abroad; Labanotation; the first wholly successful system for recording human movement; is now having the effect on ballet and other forms of dance that the prefection of music notation in the Renaissance had on the development of music.This book makes it possible to record accurately; for study and reconstruction; the great dance creations of the theater; as well as such diverse activities as time/motion studies for industry; personnel assessment and physical therapy. So comprehensive that it can indicate even facial expressions; the system is also simple enough for a child to learn easily as an integral part of athletic or dance training.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Poetry is great but Kindle formatting is horribleBy LorreenI buy only eBooks these days; and while I expect to put up with some formatting weirdness in free/extra-cheap public domain books; that really isnt very tolerable in contemporary books that cost real money (even if it isnt a ton of money). And therein lies my problem with this book. I *loved* this new; sassy rendering of the story; but it was hard to get the full impact when in every hyphenated word (of which there were a lot--with good poetic effect) the hyphen was rendered as an m-dash; giving a wholly different effect than intended. On top of the unpleasant halting; stuttering effect achieved by that formatting abnormality; there were a few other weirdnesses; such as "tl" being routinely rendered as "d" leading to some unusual misspellings that werent always easy to work out until one figured out the pattern of error. Publishers; please; do bother to proofread your electronic versions. This was just sloppy; and I returned my copy because of it.17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Not Really GilgameshBy Frank PerryI bought this Gilgamesh along with the new rendition by Stephen Mitchell. Of the two; I would highly recommend that the potential reader buy the Mitchell version.My problem with this lusty; powerfully written and masculine poem; is that it is not Gilgamesh. The poet has been so free in rendering Gilgamesh into modern English that the epic story is almost completely lost. I would rate it higher if it had a different title with something like "A New Poem Loosely Based on the Ancient Epic"... something like that. And very loosely at that! Kind of like "Truth-in-Lending".The reader who is new to Gilgamesh will be totally baffled by this ancient classic if the Hines version is the one he or she buys. I think that the reader who is well acquainted with this nearly 5;000-year-old epic might very well find new delights in Derrek Hiness poem. But again; it just isnt Gilgamesh and should be sold as something else.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Christopher Logue-esque reworking of GilgameshBy Joe KenneyDerrek Hines does to Gilgamesh what Christopher Logue does to the Iliad in "War Music;" hes rewritten the epic from ground-up in contemporary English verse. The back cover of this edition of Gilgamesh namedrops Ted Hughess "Tales from Ovid" and Seamus Heaneys "Beowulf" as points of comparison - but those two books were actual translations. Hiness Gilgamesh is not; and neither is Logues "War Music." The reason Logue isnt mentioned; I assume; is because whole swathes of Hiness Gilgamesh come off like "War Music; Part Two." I mean; its more Logue than Logue in parts; with its postmodern spin on ancient epic. Heres how Hines writes the intro of the goddess Ishtar; as she descends upon Gilgamesh:The incoming; high-velocity blip on the radar screenflips onto the sky; and cracks the sound barrier.Before him a Manhattan-high wall of glass airshatters; and reglazes behinda woman.For a moment blues brakes fail:everything stammers sapphireuntil her eyes cool to human frequencies.She is ISHTAR . . .So Logue is a huge influence here. And though Hines proves himself a fine poet; there is one element where Logue is his superior: Logue remembers to craft a narrative. Hines instead relays the story of Gilgamesh in hindsight; spending more time on extended soliloquies on life and death. The battle with Humbaba for example is here relayed via the POV of an anonymous soldier; complete with high-tech metaphors of the battle. But as for Gilgameshs actual battle with Humbaba? Its dashed off in four lines - beginning; middle; and end. Gilgameshs quest for immortality is given even shorter shrift; he gains and loses the "Herb of Immortality" in one single line.Its for these reasons that; as others have stated; this version of Gilgamesh should not serve as ones entry point into the epic. This is certainly written for those who have read more faithful translations of Gilgamesh and are now ready for a snazzier take on it. My only regret is that Hines doesnt spend more time letting the tale unfold. He speeds through every memorable scene - Gilgamesh and Enkidus first meeting; their battles; Ishtars proposal to Gilgamesh and Gilgameshs denial of her; the battle with the Taurus constellation; Enkidus death; the whole goshdarn STORY; basically - broaching and dismissing them in the blink of an eye. That being said; this book is filled to the brim with poetic moments. Take this fantastic insight:For who needs the gods when you have poetryto exalt and redeem man in his fate -a liturgy without religion?And here is Gilgameshs recount of his (all-too-briefly told) trip to the Underworld:"And of the Underworld; well;grim it was; but Ive seen more terrifying placesin a lovers eyes."So even if it isnt as jawdropping as Logues "War Music" or as flawless as Hughess "Tales from Ovid;" this "account" of Gilgamesh at least reaches for the same heights - and sometimes manages to snatch hold.