Ann Hutchinson Guest Examines Nijinsky's Famous Ballet

Release date: February 24, 2007 |

Ann Hutchinson Guest, internationally celebrated as the foremost authority on dance notation, will present a free public lecture on Vaslav Nijinsky’s famous ballet “L’Après-midi d’un Faune” on Saturday, February 24 at 3 p.m. in Goucher College’s Merrick Lecture Hall. Please call 410-337-6390 if you plan to bring a group.

Guest will share the historical background of this much-discussed ballet, along with Nijinsky’s production notes and notation system. She will analyze the choreographic style of the ballet, and relate the research problems encountered in the transcription, revival, and translation of the dance into Labanotation. Guest is uniquely qualified to speak on this topic—working with Claudia Jeschke in 1987; Guest deciphered Nijinsky’s system of dance notation.

Guest is the founder of the Language of Dance Centre, an international organization dedicated to teaching her Language of Dance system, an approach to teaching dance that focuses on the building blocks of movement.

In addition to her work with Language of Dance, Guest has worked with choreographers such as Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Doris Humphrey, and Jose Limon as a dancer and notator.

Guest’s Goucher appearance is sponsored by the Department of Dance.