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Writing Group Dance
When more than one dancer moves at a time, as in "pas
de deux" (dance for two) or in group dances, the notation
for each person is placed on a separate staff line. The movements
for each dancer are coordinated under the same counts, placed
above the first staff with numbers. If many dancers move in unison,
their movements are written only once, on one staff line, which
shortens the group dance manuscript greatly. Large pattern stages
are written at the bottom of the page, showing the interaction
of the dancers. Group dance scores in Sutton DanceWriting have
the same advantage of instrumental scores in written music:
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