On stage, dances exist for a moment in space — in downtown Columbus, they also sit stationary on a canvas. At Ohio State’s Urban Arts Space, German artist Jean Kirsten is set to show how to ...

When a composer sits down to work, she might use a keyboard or a guitar to play the notes in her head. Ultimately, though, the permanent record of her song or symphony is a written score. Same thing ...

- a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics ...

Muriel Topaz, influential dance journalist, educator and specialist in choreographic notation, died April 28 in Branford, Conn., of a liver ailment. She was 70. Topaz spent much of her career writing ...