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Diagrammatic and symbolic notations play a role in the performing arts, such as music, dance, and drama. Some notations for documenting movement of the human body in time have been developed for research and practice. However, contrary to music and drama, learning to dance does not require the mastery of dance notations. The goal of the paper is to examine the potential of diagrammatic notational schemes for learning to lead in salsa dancing. First, goals and functions of dance notation are considered and an existing diagrammatical system is examined as a representational system. Subsequently, a systematic analysis of moves between salsa position diagrams is undertaken and learning tasks are suggested for empirical study.
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Crazy Lion Productions: Super Mario, Salsa on1 Partnerwork@HotSalsaWeekend, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJpF7z5yWA4.
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Dance Dojo: How to Remember Salsa Moves (the mistake that’s holding you back), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W58JLb04AA.
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de Vries, E. (2022). Diagrams for Learning to Lead in Salsa Dancing. In: Giardino, V., Linker, S., Burns, R., Bellucci, F., Boucheix, JM., Viana, P. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15146-0_22
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