- a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics ...

Muriel Topaz, influential dance journalist, educator and specialist in choreographic notation, died April 28 in Branford, Conn., of a liver ailment. She was 70. Topaz spent much of her career writing ...

You can put on a virtual reality headset and immerse yourself in a fictional world a million miles from Earth. You can put on a virtual reality headset and immerse yourself in a fictional world a ...

Muriel Topaz, an influential dance journalist, educator and specialist in choreographic notation, has died. A tireless crusader for documenting dances, step by step, she died Monday in Branford, Conn.

She was a leading advocate of and expert on dance notation, helping to do for choreographed works what a score does for music. By Neil Genzlinger Ann Hutchinson Guest, one of the world’s foremost ...

When a composer sits down to work, she might use a keyboard or a guitar to play the notes in her head. Ultimately, though, the permanent record of her song or symphony is a written score. Same thing ...