Ann Hutchinson Guest

Ann Hutchinson Guest MBE (November 3, 1918 – April 9, 2022) was a British-based American authority on dance notation and movement analysis. She studied more than 80 dance notation systems and translated 20 to Labanotation. This gave her access to a number of dance works in their original version – such as Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’Après-midi d’un Faune. Her extensive research, performing and teaching career led her to establish the Language of Dance® approach to movement understanding.

Ann Hutchinson Guest

MBE
Guest in 2009
Born(1918-11-03)November 3, 1918
New York City, U.S.
DiedApril 9, 2022(2022-04-09) (aged 103)
London, England
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartington Hall
Known forDance notation

Career

She studied Labanotation with Sigurd Leeder at Dartington Hall in England in the 1930s, and trained in modern dance and ballet. In New York she co-founded and directed the Dance Notation Bureau, danced on Broadway and taught at the Juilliard School.[1][2]

Awards and honours

For her contribution to dance research and education she was awarded two honorary doctorates as well as many lifetime achievement awards. In 1997 she received the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).[3] In 1998 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Dance Studies.[4]

In 2021, she was appointed an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.[5]

Personal life and death

Ann Hutchinson Guest was born on November 3, 1918 in New York City.[6] She died on April 9, 2022, at the age of 103.[7][8][9]

Works
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (1998). Choreo-graphics: a comparison of dance notation systems from the fifteenth century to the present. Gordon and Breach. ISBN 9789057000034. OCLC 50987415.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2004). Labanotation, or, Kinetography Laban: the system of analyzing and recording movement. Routledge. ISBN 9780415965613. OCLC 63092928.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2004). Your move: a new approach to the study of movement and dance : exercise sheets. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780677223100. OCLC 224533367.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson; Victoria, Felisa; Zorn, Friedrich Albert (2008). Fanny Elssler's Cachucha. Dance. ISBN 9780903102599. OCLC 619750021.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson; Jeschke, Claudia (2010). Nijinsky's Faune restored: a study of Vaslav Nijinsky's 1915 dance score : L'après-midi d'un faune and his dance notation system : revealed, translated into labanotation and annotated. Noverre Press. ISBN 9781906830168. OCLC 722720257.
  • Guest, Ann Hutchinson (2017). A selection from the Sigurd Leeder heritage. ISBN 9781906830816. OCLC 989698594.

See also

References
  1. Biography Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, lodc.org. Accessed April 16, 2022.
  2. Biography Archived 2022-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, lodcusa.org. Accessed April 16, 2022.
  3. "Awards". Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  4. "Guggenheim Fellowships 1998". Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  5. "Honorary Awards to Foreign Nationals in 2021". Gov.UK. 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  6. "DNBulletin, Fall 2007 (Vol. 10, No. 2) – Dance Notation Bureau" (PDF). Dance Notation Bureau. November 6, 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  7. "Ann Hutchinson Guest gestorben" (in German). Tanznetz. 12 April 2022. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  8. Fügedi, János; Bastien, Marion (April 11, 2022). "Remembering Ann Hutchinson Guest, President of ICKL" (PDF). International Council of Kinetography Laban (ICKL). Archived (PDF) from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  9. Genzlinger, Neil (15 April 2022). "Ann Hutchinson Guest, Who Fixed Dance on Paper, Dies at 103". The New York Times.
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