Kinetograph Quarterly · Score 07 · Autumn Folio

Study No. 7 — Threshold

A nine-measure solo for one dancer and one doorway, transcribed from the 1974 studio tapes. The staff below is read from the floor upward: time rises, the body writes itself vertically, and the centre line is the dancer's own spine.

Choreography · Marta Vinter
Transcribed · H. Okonkwo
4/4 · ♩ = 68
Duration 3′ 12″
72 counts

Count 01 / 72

Reading M1 · c1

Select a symbol

Every mark on the staff carries a limb, a direction, a level and a duration. Tap any symbol to read its transcription note; use the arrow keys inside the staff to move count by count.

Limb: —
Direction: —
Level: —
Counts: —

Direction key

Placeweight stays under the centre
Forwardtoward the doorway
Backaway from the light
Side rightopening the ribs
Side leftclosing the ribs
Rotationpivot on the standing leg

Level key

Lowsolid — knee bent, weight sunk
Middledotted — level, unweighted
Highhatched — rising, heel lifted

Notation Primer, 4th ed.

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