The Scores Project: Labanotation score for Yvonne Rainer’s dances Chair-Pillow and Couples, from the larger project Continuous Project Altered Daily (1970), as performed at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1970)

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Title	Labanotation score for Yvonne Rainer’s dances Chair-Pillow and Couples, from the larger project Continuous Project Altered Daily (1970), as performed at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Maker	Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
Date	1970
Type	score
Location	Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 22, folder 17

This score was created by Barbara Katz, a notator trained in Labanotation, a form of dance notation first developed by the Austro-Hungarian dance theorist Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s. Labanotation remains the most widely used standardized form of dance notation that exists, although it has not been adopted to the extent that staff notation has in the discipline of music. In the main, dance practitioners rely on rehearsal, muscle memory, and body-to-body transmission alongside moving-image documentation and personal note-taking systems.

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Rainer, Yvonne. Labanotation score for Yvonne Rainer’s dances Chair-Pillow and Couples, from the larger project Continuous Project Altered Daily (1970), as performed at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1970. Getty Research Institute, Yvonne Rainer Papers, 2006.M.24, box 22, folder 17. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/465/.

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Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975

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