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A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
_"How do you write down how to dance?"_
Unless they are extremely skilled at free handing the human body or have experience with technical drawing, the diagrams will be a mess, acting more as reminders than records of what they learned, and the descriptions of the moves being overly wordy to the point of incomprehensibility. I've picked up and abandoned this question more times than I can remember though, writing down and organizing notes, experimenting with my own custom notations and diagrams, exploring existing ones like Labanotation, and just generally getting no where with it over the last decade or so of my social dancing life. But, I was tired of failing at producing anything all that useful with my dance notes and wanted to try something new, so I hired a private tutor to teach me how to use Blender, a free and open source 3D modeling software.
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