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Dance Notation: Sutton Movement Writing and Shorthand Workshop with Iris Berry, Med, PTA, ATC, LMT

Sutton Movement Writing and Shorthand is a complete movement notation system for recording all body movement invented by dancer and dance teacher Valerie Sutton.

The focus of this workshop will be DanceWriting, an easy way to read and write any kind of dance movement. A stick figure drawing is written on a five-lined staff. Each line of the staff represents a specific level. Below the stick figures, 3-D symbols are used to represent the third dimension. Counts coordinating with the written music are placed above the staff and the dance is divided into dance measures.

Iris Berry is an adjunct faculty member in the Sports and Movement Science department at Salem State University. Prior to her tenure at Salem State she taught ballet, jazz, injury prevention and Sutton Dance Writing ™ at the Marblehead School of Ballet.  From 1991 to 2003 she worked as the athletic trainer for Marblehead High School for 26 teams. She has been a practicing physical therapist assistant since 1989.

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