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Dance Diagrams

I don't know why, but I find these notations of various dance steps, from baroque to Morris dances, very appealing, although completely incomprehensible. Perhaps it's the idea that to someone these complicated symbols and figures actually mean "Hop, wiggle, skip here".

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Posted by on March 17, 2008 2:06 PM |

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