Watching a tape of the “Jewels” ballet, and got to wondering how ballet steps themselves are written down for other dance companies to perform. (I know less than a thimbleful about ballet, except that the ladies are wonderfully feminine, and generally gorgeous.)
So.
Let’s say Tchaikovsky is commisioned to write Swan Lake. He does so, then a choreographer in the Russian ballet theater organization is tasked with creating the ballet dances. I read somewhare long ago, that there is a “language” (say, like cuneiform?) for writing down a ballet, replete with a vocabulary that describes all the steps all the steps which each dancer performs.
I tried Googling for this language but couldn’t find it. Trouble is I don’t know how to search for it. One thing I did find is a statement that most ballets are not written down. Okay, but that’s just “most.” So, some are written down.
The question is, where on the web might I see examples of this ballet language?