Abstract

can enjoy the academic and socially communicative value that all written and spoken languages have had for centuries; allowing for the creation of libraries containing notated texts which preserve the world's dance heritage in an intelligible form, and facilitating discourse and education concerning movement. Linguistic recognition becomes even more vital for dance in an age disseminating increasingly more information and knowledge through electronic means. This goal is continuously being worked towards at the Centre through its various working projects in dance preservation, Labanotation evolvement and refinement, and movement education for all ages. The resources at the Centre reflect directly the work it has done and still undertakes. There is an extensive library of notated material preserving artistic works, ethnic and social dances, contributing to human movement research, and the largest collection in the world of resources on various systems ofmovement notation and the comparative linguistics of these systems, as well as rich

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