Selma Jeanne Cohen

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Selma Jeanne Cohen has been a major dance scholar of the 20th century. Among her accomplishments are starting the journal 'Dance Perspectives' and working on a multivolume encyclopedia of the dance which is about ready for publication. Cohen also founded the Dance Perspectives Foundation which fosters dance studies in many ways. Cohen has been the recipient of many awards.

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Selma Jeanne Cohen and Eugene Loring's 'Kinesiography.'(Aspects of Dance: Essays in Honor of Selma Jeanne Cohen)

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Eugene Loring's system of dance notation is not very well known but is based on the number one and has four categories of movement: emotion, direction, degree and special. To Loring, number one was the symbol of unity. One was represented by a vertical line and movement was indicated around this line. The system is harder to learn and less practical than Labanotation.

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The published writings of Selma Jeanne Cohen

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The works of Selma Jeanne Cohen convey the changing attitude toward dance in the world. Her books celebrate the development of dance through the ages. Apart from writing books, Selma also wrote for periodicals and newspapers. Her book reviews appear in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Between 1953 and 1995, Selma concentrated on writing for newspapers.

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