Folding the moment - writing dance: A few sketches on recording dance through time

The beginnings of ballet as theatrical dance coincide with the beginnings of recording movement, at first in the form of notational systems, which reach their peak at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when it is becoming increasingly evident that dance notation systematization is a utopian task. Each recording of movement proves to be a unique analytical system allowing insights both in movement representations of a certain time and at the same time in the problematic of movement as such. The recording of contemporary dance outside the ballet institution is thus defined primarily with the particularity of own (auto)biographical writing and with education and the establishment of dance schools that see to the preservation of dance languages. Both these moments are important for the development of Slovene contemporary dance; whereas the present recording of dance is entirely subjected to particular patterns of seeing and intellectualisation of the seen.